The mesogenic properties of a homologous series of aromatic ester materials are investigated. Single tail and double tail materials were synthesized to compare with other series we prepared and published earlier. The ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51273133 and 51443004)
Disk-like liquid crystals(DLCs) can self-assemble to ordered columnar mesophases and are intriguing onedimensional organic semiconductors with high charge carrier mobility.To improve their applicable property of mes...
Acknowledgement The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21272080), Department of Science and Technology, Guangdong Province (Nos. 2010A020507001-76, 5300410, FIPL-05-003), and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry.
A new class of benzodioxocycloalkane-based (C8-C10) liquid crystals were prepared. The impact of ring (C8- C10) as end group was investigated. The 8--9 membered ring derivatives, 3a--3b, exhibited the nematic phas...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50973076 & 51073112)
Twelve triphenylene discogens with unsaturated periphery (abbreviated as C18H6(OC5H11)6-x(OR)x(x=1,2,3), R=-C3H6CH==CH2(a),-C3H6C≡CH(b),-C2H4OCH==CH2(c)) were synthesized and characterized. The thermotropic liquid cr...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.50473062,50673069,and 50811140156)
Connecting two discotic mesogens via a spacer not only stabilizes the columnar mesophase but also leads to the formation of glass columnar phase, and therefore improves the physical properties of discotic liquid cryst...
The 4-alkoxybenzoic acids are well-known liquid crystals showing several mesophases (nematic, smectic C phase or both) depending on the alkoxy chain length and whereby the rigid core of the mesogen is formed by interm...
The phase behaviour of lanthanide(Ⅲ) dodecylsulphates, Ln(C 12 H 25 SO 4) 3, by thermo optical microscopy using Lawrence penetration technique was investigated. The lyotropic phase behaviour of lanthanide(...