Effect of grafting density on the self-assembly of side-chain discotic liquid crystalline polymers with triphenylene discogens

The self-assembly of triphenylene (TP)-based side-chain discotic liquid crystalline polymers (SDLCPs) with different grafting densities was investigated by using the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method.

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Self-Assembly Behavior of Triphenylene-Based Side-Chain Discotic Liquid Crystalline Polymers

Macromolecules ◽

10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00655 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (14) ◽

pp. 5556-5564 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Minqing Gong ◽

Qiuyan Yu ◽

Shiying Ma ◽

Fang Luo ◽

Rong Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Self Assembly ◽

Liquid Crystalline ◽

Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽

Side Chain ◽

Crystalline Polymers ◽

Assembly Behavior

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Self-assembly and stimuli-responsive behaviours of side-chain liquid crystalline copolymers: a dissipative particle dynamics simulation approach

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ◽

10.1039/c9cp00400a ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (14) ◽

pp. 7645-7653 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yisheng Lv ◽

Liquan Wang ◽

Fangsheng Wu ◽

Shuting Gong ◽

Jie Wei ◽

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Keyword(s):

Self Assembly ◽

Liquid Crystalline ◽

Dissipative Particle Dynamics ◽

Particle Dynamics ◽

Dynamics Simulation ◽

Side Chain ◽

Simulation Approach ◽

Stimuli Responsive ◽

Selective Solvents ◽

Dissipative Particle Dynamics Simulation

Side-chain liquid crystalline copolymers are able to self-assemble into various aggregates in selective solvents, in particular, deformed structures.

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Synthesis of Combined Main-Chain/Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polymers via Self-Assembly

Macromolecules ◽

10.1021/ma052716q ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 39 (14) ◽

pp. 4735-4745 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Wenyi Huang ◽

Chang Dae Han

Keyword(s):

Self Assembly ◽

Liquid Crystalline ◽

Main Chain ◽

Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽

Side Chain ◽

Crystalline Polymers

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Liquid crystalline polymers: self-organization and assembly

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences ◽

10.1098/rsta.1993.0097 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 344 (1672) ◽

pp. 403-417 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Liquid Crystals ◽

Self Assembly ◽

Liquid Crystalline ◽

Liquid Crystalline Polymers ◽

Side Chain ◽

Simple Liquid ◽

Crystalline Polymers ◽

Nematic Order ◽

Nematic State ◽

Chain Conformations

Liquid crystal forming monomers, typically rods, can be polymerized to form long mesogenic molecules. In contrast to simple rods, these polymers often have internal degrees of freedom so that they display the subtle behaviour of both high polymers and simple liquid crystals. They can have the rod elements either concatenated as a back-bone to give main chain (MC), or pendant to a back-bone to give side chain (SC) liquid crystals, or both. The physics unique to liquid crystalline polymers (LCPS) comes from their shape being dependent on the state of nematic order. Simple systems remain molecular rods (or disks) on ordering whereas a chain extends or flattens (depending on whether or not the nematic order is prolate or oblate). New phenomena as a result of this occur in situations as disparate as networks and, it is predicted, in dielectric response. We examine both SC and MC LCPS and the mechanisms by which they order lyotropically (in solution) and therm otropically (in the melt). Various types of models will be discussed in general and then restricted to the therm otropic case, lyotropic systems being discussed in Lekkerkerker & Vroege (this volume). The transition to the ordered state is first order as in simple nematics. The main characteristics of this state are modified chain conformations and, additionally for side chain polymers, transitions between various novel competing nematic states. A form of self-assembly that is a delicate function of the nematic order is observed in transesterifying LCPS. The number of chain ends is conserved but material exchanged between chains according to whether they are in the isotropic or nematic state. We review a model of this type of self-assembly.

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