supported by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.LY20B060027);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21878258);the Spanish Ministry of Economy MINECO for a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion Fellowship(No.IJCI-2014-22461);supported by the National Science Foundation(No.DMR1310266);the Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center(No.DMR-1420570)。
Amphiphilic molecules adsorbed at the interface could control the orientation of liquid crystals(LCs)while LCs in turn could influence the distributions of amphiphilic molecules.The studies on the interactions between...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51875303,21773041,21972031);the National Basic Research Program of China(No.2016YFA0200700);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB36000000)。
Functional groups in the molecule play an important role in the molecular o rganization process.To reveal the influence of functional groups on the self-assembly at interface,herein,the self-assembly structures of thr...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51303177);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB12020300)
In this work, the mesophase properties were tuned via mixing two discotic molecules with structural complementarity. Compared with the liquid crystalline hexakis(n-hexyloxy)triphenylene(H6TP)materials(columnar he...
supported by the Sino-American Cooperative Project of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (No.2013DFB50340);the National Science Foundation of China (No.51173155);the Major Project of Beijing Science & Technology Program (No.Z121100006512002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51103010);the Doctoral Fund of Chinese Ministry of Education (No.20120001130005)
A series of high birefringence liquid crystalline molecules with cyano, isothiocyanato and trifluoromethyl terminal compounds based on naphthylethyne core was successfully synthesized and characterized. The molecular ...
supported by UMP Research(No.RDU 100338);RAGS(No.RDU131408)
The fluorine-substituted benzoate ester rod-shaped liquid crystals containing an azobenzene side chain linked with terminal double bonds were synthesized and characterized.The mesophase and photoswitching properties w...
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) for the financial supports via LRGS(No.LR003-2011A)and research facilities
A homologous series of heterocycles,6-methyl-2-(4-alkoxybenzylidenamino)benzothiazoles,were synthesized and characterized using FT-IR,^1H and ^(13)C NMR and mass spectrometric analysis.Enantiotropic nematic phase ...
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education for the financial supports via LRGS and research facilities
A homologous series of azomethine esters,4-n-alkanoyloxybenzylidene-4'-bromoanilines possessing even number of carbon atoms at the terminal alkanoyloxy chain(C_(n-1)H_(2n-1)COO- n = 8,10,12,14,16,18) was synthe...
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman for the research facilities and financial support (UTAR Research Fund);Ministry of Higher Education(MOHE) for funding this project
New Schiff base liquid crystals containing benzoxazole core and alkanoyloxy chain at the end group of the molecules (C_(n-1)H_(2n-1)COO-,n=14,16,18) was synthesized.The present compounds are enantiotropic smecti...
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman(UTAR) for the UTAR Research Fund (No.6200/H02);the Malaysia Toray Science Foundation(No.4359/000) for funding this project
The design and synthesis of new calamitic benzothiazole-based liquid crystals,2-[4-(4-alkyloxybenzoyloxy)-phenyl]ben-zothiazoles are presented.The target compound was characterized using spectroscopic techniques,suc...
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman for the research facilities and financial support; Ministry of Higher Education for the award of MOHE Scholarship
A series of azomethine esters,3-hydroxy-4-{[(4-iodophenyl)imino]methyl}phenyl alkanoates possessing even number of carbon atoms at the terminal alkanoyloxy chain(C_(n-1)H_(2n-1)COO-,n = 4,6,8,10,12,14) was syn...