Polyfluorinated additives for use as components in liquid-crystal mixtures. Liquid-crystal mixtures which comprise these compounds. And liquid-crystal displays based on these liquid-crystal mixtures.

A polymerizable LC material comprising one or more reactive mesogenic compounds, one or more chiral compounds and a block copolymer that comprises at least one polyfluorooxetane block bonded to a polyether block, said polyfluorooxetane block having a repeating unit of the formula

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Further, a method for its preparation, a polymer film obtainable from a corresponding polymerizable LC material, a method of preparation of such polymer film, and the use of such polymer film and said polymerizable LC material in optical, electro-optical, decorative or security devices.

The spontaneous orientation aid for a liquid crystal composition provides storage stability and allows liquid crystal molecules to be vertically aligned without a PI layer when added to a liquid crystal composition. When used in a liquid crystal composition, the spontaneous orientation aid can adsorb to substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal composition (liquid crystal layer) and keep the liquid crystal molecules aligned in a vertical direction. The spontaneous orientation aid makes it possible to align liquid crystal molecules without a PI layer (to induce vertical alignment of liquid crystal molecules under no applied voltage and to achieve horizontal alignment of the liquid crystal molecules under an applied voltage).

To provide a liquid crystal display device that has a high off-response speed and a good balance between drive voltage and transmittance, is stable over time, and also has a high voltage holding ratio. A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer containing a polymer network (A) and a liquid crystal composition (B) is disposed between two substrates having an electrode on at least one side thereof and having transparent properties on at least one side thereof, and the loss factor (tan δ) (loss modulus/storage modulus) of the liquid crystal layer calculated from the storage modulus (Pa) and the loss modulus (Pa) in a sinusoidal vibration measured with a rheometer at 25° C. and at a measurement frequency of 1 Hz ranges from 0.1 to 1.

The present application provides a liquid crystal composition containing dibenzo derivatives and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal composition comprises at least one compound of general formula I and at least one compound of general formula II.

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The present invention belongs to the technical field of liquid crystal materials, and in particular relates to a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display containing the liquid crystal composition. The present invention discloses a liquid crystal composition, comprising one or more compounds represented by Formula I, one or more compounds represented by Formula II, and one or more compounds represented by Formula III. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has a large optical anisotropy and a small ratio of γ.sub.1/K.sub.11, and can be used for developing a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display with a low cell thickness and a fast response.

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An object of the present invention is to provide a polymerizable liquid crystal compound having excellent solubility, which is used for the formation of an optically anisotropic film having excellent durability, a method for producing the same, a polymerizable liquid crystal composition, an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound of the embodiment of the present invention is a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (1), L.sup.1-SP.sup.1-A.sup.1-D.sup.3-G.sup.1-D.sup.1-Ar-D.sup.2-G.sup.2-D.sup.4-A.sup.2-SP.sup.2-L.sup.2 . . . (1) in Formula (1), the ClogP value of the group represented by L.sup.1-SP.sup.1-A.sup.1-D.sup.3-G.sup.1-D.sup.1 and the ClogP value of the group represented by L.sup.2-SP.sup.2-A.sup.2-D.sup.4-G.sup.2-D.sup.2 are different from each other, and at least one of the ClogP values is 3.3 or more.

A liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal display comprising the liquid crystal composition belong to the field of liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal composition of the present disclosure comprises a compound represented by formula I, a compound represented by formula II, one or more compounds represented by formula III, one or more compounds represented by formula IV and more than three compounds represented by formula V. The liquid crystal composition has low rotational viscosity γ.sub.1 and high stability to heat and light on the basis of maintaining appropriate optical anisotropy Δn, which can realize fast response of liquid crystal display.

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A liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound of general formula F and at least one compound of general formula N. A liquid crystal display device includes the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition has a larger K value, a smaller rotational viscosity, a higher VHR value, a longer low temperature storage time and a shorter response time while maintaining an appropriate clearing point, an appropriate optical anisotropy, and an appropriate absolute value of dielectric anisotropy, such that the liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal composition has a better contrast, a wider temperature range for application, a faster response speed, a better contrast and a higher reliability. ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media as defined in claim 1, having negative dielectric anisotropy and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays.