Vapor-Deposited Glasses with Long-Range Columnar Liquid Crystalline Order

Origin of Ultrastability in Vapor-Deposited Glasses.

Glass films created by vapor-depositing molecules onto a substrate can exhibit properties similar to those of ordinary glasses aged for thousands of years. It is believed that enhanced surface mobility is the mechanism that allows vapor deposition to create such exceptional glasses, but it is unclear how this effect is related to the final state of the film. Here we use molecular dynamics simul...

Interaction of a solid supported liquid-crystalline phospholipid membrane with physical vapor deposited metal atoms.

A metal (Ag, Au, Pd, Sn, Bi, In, Co, Al) layer directly deposited onto a liquid-crystalline lipid membrane resulted in different morphologies, ranging from a monolayer of discrete particles to a continuous film, depending on the metal's oxidation tendency.

Columnar liquid crystalline bis-N-annulated quaterrylenes.

Columnar liquid crystalline bis-N-annulated quaterrylenes have been prepared from readily available N-annulated perylenes by DDQ/Sc(OTf)(3) oxidative coupling and ring-fusion.

Liquid-crystalline fullerodendrimers which display columnar phases.

[structure: see text] The title compounds were synthesized by applying the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of aldehyde-based poly(benzyl ether) dendrimers and sarcosine (N-methylglycine) to [60]fullerene (C(60)). The dendritic building blocks used to functionalize C(60) displayed cubic and hexagonal columnar phases. The fullerene derivatives showed rectangular columnar phases of c2mm symmetry.

Long Range Corrections to the Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium and Surface Tension of Methane with NVT Molecular Dynamics Simulations