Mesophases of non-conventional liquid crystalline molecules

Investigating reversed liquid crystalline mesophases

Reversed liquid crystalline mesophases, such as the reversed bicontinuous cubic, reversed hexagonal or reversed micellar cubic phase, are nowadays widely studied due to their potential applications in, for instance, the controlled delivery of functional molecules. In order to design the adequate mesophase delivery system for a specific application, the crystallographic structure of the phase ha...

Identification of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophases

A facile synthetic route to novel thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers and characterization of their mesophases

A novel method for the synthesis of a new class of thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers has been developed: it proceeds via a polyaddition reaction involving diepoxy-containing mesogene groups and a monoamine (aniline). The reaction between the epoxy ring and the primary amine produces an intermediate containing a secondary amine which undergoes further reaction with an epoxy ring of anothe...

Molecular Dynamics in the Columnar and Lamellar Mesophases of a Liquid Crystal of Biforked Molecules

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Mesogenic Polyelectrolyte Gels Absorb Organic Solvents and Liquid Crystalline Molecules

In this paper, mesogenic polyelectrolyte gels (MPEgels) tethering mesogenic groups on the side chains were synthesized from a mesogenic monomer and ionic monomer via a conventional radical polymerization process. The obtained MPEgels absorbed various organic solvents in a wide range of dielectric constants from chloroform (ε = 7.6) to DMSO (ε = 46.5). The electrostatic repulsion among the polym...