Liquid Crystals: Versatile Self-Organized Smart Soft Materials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Krishna Bisoyi ◽  
Quan Li
ChemInform ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (16) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
Takashi Kato ◽  
Yoshiko Shoji ◽  
Masafumi Yoshio ◽  
Shogo Yamane ◽  
Takuma Yasuda

2014 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Zhang ◽  
Chih-Hao Hsu ◽  
Xiangkui Ren ◽  
Yan Gu ◽  
Bo Song ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (26) ◽  
pp. 5220-5226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Boniello ◽  
Yimin Luo ◽  
Daniel A. Beller ◽  
Francesca Serra ◽  
Kathleen J. Stebe

By confining soft materials within tailored boundaries it is possible to design energy landscapes to address and control colloidal dynamics. Twist distortions in confined liquid crystals multiply configurations for particles-boundaries interactions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (47) ◽  
pp. 18967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano De Sio ◽  
Roberto Caputo ◽  
Ugo Cataldi ◽  
Cesare Umeton

2014 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Zhang ◽  
Chih-Hao Hsu ◽  
Xiangkui Ren ◽  
Yan Gu ◽  
Bo Song ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Emre Bukusoglu ◽  
Marco Bedolla Pantoja ◽  
Peter C. Mushenheim ◽  
Xiaoguang Wang ◽  
Nicholas L. Abbott

2008 ◽  
Vol 47-50 ◽  
pp. 165-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suk Wah Tam-Chang ◽  
Delfin Mahinay ◽  
Li Ming Huang

In this paper, we described the synthesis of N,N’-di-(2-ammoniumethyl)perylene- 3,4,9,10-bis(dicarboximide) ditrifluoroacetate (1), an ionic organic compound that self-organized to give chromonic liquid crystals and anisotropic crystals. Using a polymer template with micrometer-scale features to direct the ordered arrangement of 1, patterned structure with micrometer-scale local order was fabricated. The anisotropic (direction-dependent) properties of the crystals and micropatterns of 1 were investigated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 5024
Author(s):  
Debashis Majhi ◽  
Andrei V. Komolkin ◽  
Sergey V. Dvinskikh

Ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) present a new class of non-molecular soft materials with a unique combination of high ionic conductivity and anisotropy of physicochemical properties. Symmetrically-substituted long-chain imidazolium-based mesogenic ionic liquids exhibiting a smectic liquid crystalline phase were investigated by solid state NMR spectroscopy and computational methods. The aim of the study was to reveal the correlation between cation size and structure, local dynamics, and orientational order in the layered mesophase. The obtained experimental data are consistent with the model of a rod-shaped cation with the two chains aligned in opposite directions outward from the imidazolium core. The alignment of the core plane to the phase director and the restricted conformations of the chain segments were determined and compared to those in single-chain counterparts. The orientational order parameter S~0.5–0.6 of double-chain ionic liquid crystals is higher than that of corresponding single-chain analogues. This is compatible with the enhanced contribution of van der Waals forces to the stabilization of smectic layers. Increased orientational order for the material with Br− counterions, which exhibit a smaller ionic radius and higher ability to form hydrogen bonds as compared to that of BF4−, also indicated a non-negligible influence of electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions. The enhanced rod-shape character and higher orientational order of symmetrically-substituted ILCs can offer additional opportunities in the design of self-assembling non-molecular materials.


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