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Liquid Crystalline Poly(meth)acrylates Containing Bent-Core Mesogens: Synthesis and Characterization Xiaofang Chen ， Qi-Feng Zhou* Department of Polymer Science and Engineering and The Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China Abstract Side chain liquid crystalline (LC) poly(meth)acrylates with end-on bent-core liquid crystalline (BCLC) mesogens were synthesized. The resulting polymers exhibit thermotropic LC behavior. SmCP phases were observed for both monomers and polymers. In LC monomers, typical antiferroelectric switching was observed. In the corresponding polymers, a unique bilayer structure was observed, which is different from the reported BCLC bilayer SmCG phase. Keywords: liquid crystalline polymers, bent-core mesogens, antiferroelectricity Introduction Bent-core liquid crystals (BCLC) have become one of the most extensively investigated liquid crystalline materials since their ferroelectric/antiferroelectric properties were first reported in 1996.1 Diverse banana phases, denoted as B1-B7 phases, which couldn’t be observed on conventional calamtic LC systems, have been reported. Layer chirality, splay modulation and TGB-like helical organization were proposed to explain the spontanous polarization and supramolecular chiral structures of BCLCs Meanwhile, many efforts have been devoted to the design and synthesis of BCLC molecules. 2-5 It is also of interest in introducing BCLC units to polymer systems in order to investigate influence of their diverse self-organization on polymer systems with multiple length scales.