Heterolithic azobenzene-containing supermolecular tripedal liquid crystals self-organizing into highly segregated bilayered smectic phases

…, B Heinrich, D Guillon, J Tomczyk, J Stumpe…

Index: Nagy, Zsuzsanna T.; Heinrich, Benoit; Guillon, Daniel; Tomczyk, Jaroslaw; Stumpe, Joachim; Donnio, Bertrand Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 , vol. 22, # 35 p. 18614 - 18622

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Abstract

Synthesis, self-organization, and optical properties of supermolecular tripedal liquid crystals incorporating various prototypical mesogenic units such as alkoxy-azobenzene (AZB), alkoxy-biphenylene (BPH) or alkoxy-cyanobiphenyl (OCB) derivatives are reported. Different molecular systems were designed in order to sequentially incorporate the smectogenic-like alkoxy-azobenzene-based chromophore within the molecular structure, whose relative ...