Two- and three-dimensional liquid-crystal phases from axial bundles of rodlike polyphiles: segmented cylinders, crossed columns, and ribbons between sheets.
Two- and three-dimensional liquid-crystal phases from axial bundles of rodlike polyphiles: segmented cylinders, crossed columns, and ribbons between sheets.
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来自棒状亲聚体轴向束的二维和三维液晶相:分段圆柱体、交叉柱体和片材之间的带状体。
DOI:
10.1002/anie.201103303
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
Liu F
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Liu F
The design of programmed molecules for assembly into complex nanostructures has received considerable attention in recent years.[1–3] One successful approach to complex soft matter has been achieved with polyphilic star-shaped molecules, both polymeric [4] and molecular.[3, 5, 6] T-shaped bolaamphiphiles in particular provide a series of novel honeycomb liquid-crystal (LC) morphologies (Figure1a, b). In these honeycombs rodlike units form polygonal cylinder frames, with the terminal hydrogen-bonding groups fusing the cylinder walls and the flexible lateral chains filling the cell interior (Figure 1 a, b).[3] By adding a second side chain [7] incompatible with the first, we recently obtained new structures based on periodic multicolor tiling patterns. Some are of unprecedented complexity, with tiles of several different shapes and “colors”.[8, 9] However, increasing the sidechain volume leads to lamellar phases (Figure 1c)[10] and, by introducing branches, to inversion of the honeycombs, with the column core now inhabited by bundles of aromatic rods coaxial with the columns (Figure 1d).[11, 12] Herein we report a new type of bolaamphiphile (1, Scheme1) having a lateral chain with two incompatible branches, a semiperfluorinated (RF) and a carbosilane one (RSi). For this compound, three new LC phases were discovered with decreasing temperature, each with an intriguing structure: a hexagonal 3D phase with correlated modulated columns, a 3D phase with crossed columns, and a phase with columns between layers. Compound 1 (see the Supporting Information for the synthesis)[13] shows these three stable LC phases (Scheme 1) separated by reversible transitions. On cooling from the isotropic liquid, a spherulitic texture develops, typical of columnar LC (Figure2a). All mesophases have positive birefringence as confirmed by polarizing microscopy with a l-retarder. The colors of the fans (Figure 2c, middle) reveal the orientation of the slow axis as tangential rather than
影响因子:
4.9
作者:
R. Kieffer;M. Prehm;Benjamin Glettner;K. Pelz;U. Baumeister;Feng Liu;X. Zeng;G. Ungar;C. Tschie
通讯作者:
R. Kieffer;M. Prehm;Benjamin Glettner;K. Pelz;U. Baumeister;Feng Liu;X. Zeng;G. Ungar;C. Tschie
影响因子:
16.6
作者:
Glettner, Benjamin;Liu, Feng;Tschierske, Carsten
通讯作者:
Tschierske, Carsten
影响因子:
15
作者:
Prehm, Marko;Liu, Feng;Tschierske, Carsten
通讯作者:
Tschierske, Carsten