Figure 1: Basic characteristic of Ph-BTBT-10.

(a) Chemical structure, (b) texture as determined by polarized optical microscopy at 150 °C, white bar indicates a scale of 50 μm in length, (c) XRD pattern of a liquid crystalline film exhibiting a polydomain texture acquired at 160 °C in an out-of-plain configuration, (d) DSC curves obtained at 2 °C min−1 and single-crystal structures of the (e) ac and (f) ab planes. Cryst., crystalline; Liq., liquid.