The financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21774090 and 22071167);a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions were gratefully acknowledged.
We demonstrate here a novel method for the design of liquid crystals(LCs)via the cyclization of mesogens by flexible chains.For two azobenzene-4,4′-dicarboxylate derivatives,the cyclic dimer,cyclic bis(tetraethylene ...
financially supported by the Naional Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21174154,50930002 and 20874110);the Supercomputer Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences
We present a coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation study of phase behavior of amphiphilic monolayers at the liquid crystal (LC)/water interface. The results revealed that LCs at interface can influence the la...
Discussion is presented on the use of the photoisomerization of azobenzene chromophore in the design andpreparation of novel functional materials. The two systems reviewed are azobenzene polymer-stabilized liquid crys...
This project was in part supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council(HKUST597/95P&6149/97P)
A new liquid crystalline polyacetylene containing a phenyl benzoate mesogen (5) is synthesized,whose mesomorphic properties are found to be easily 'tunab1e' by simple mechanical perturbation. Thepolymerization of 10- ...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Some diacetylene-containing copolyesters with different ratios of dipropargyl 1,10-decanate anddipropargyl terephthalate were synthesized. Properties of these copolymers were characterized by differentialscanning calo...