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Engineering the glass structure of a discotic liquid crystal by multiple kinetic arrests

Junguang Yu
Zhenxuan Chen
Caroline Fatina
Debaditya Chatterjee
Harald Bock
Ranko Richert
Paul Voyles
M. Ediger
Lian Yu

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X-ray scattering has been used to characterize the columnar packing and the π stacking in a glass-forming discotic liquid crystal. In the equilibrium liquid state, the intensities of the scattering peaks for π stacking and columnar packing are proportional to each other, indicating concurrent development of the two orders. Upon cooling into the glassy state, the π–π distance shows a kinetic arrest with a change in the thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) from 321 to 109 ppm/K, while the intercolumnar spacing exhibits a constant TEC of 113 ppm/K. By changing the cooling rate, it is possible to prepare glasses with a wide range of columnar and π stacking orders, including zero order. For each glass, the columnar order and the π stacking order correspond to a much hotter liquid than its enthalpy and π–π distance, with the difference between the two internal (fictive) temperatures exceeding 100 K. By comparison with the relaxation map obtained by dielectric spectroscopy, we find that the δ mode (disk tumbling within a column) controls the columnar order and the π stacking order trapped in the glass, while the α mode (disk spinning about its axis) controls the enthalpy and the π–π spacing. Our finding is relevant for controlling the different structural features of a molecular glass to optimize its properties.
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hal-04238991 , version 1 (12-10-2023)

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Junguang Yu, Zhenxuan Chen, Caroline Fatina, Debaditya Chatterjee, Harald Bock, et al.. Engineering the glass structure of a discotic liquid crystal by multiple kinetic arrests. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023, 158 (20), ⟨10.1063/5.0149886⟩. ⟨hal-04238991⟩

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