Issue 2, 2018
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Chemical Communications

Trigonal columnar self-assembly of bent phasmid mesogens†

Huifang Cheng,‡a   Ya-xin Li,‡b   Xiang-bing Zeng, ORCID logo b   Hongfei Gao,a   Xiaohong Cheng ORCID logo *a  and  Goran Ungar ORCID logo *bc  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry for Natural Resources, Chemistry Department, Yunnan University, Yunnan, P. R. China
E-mail: xhcheng@ynu.edu.cn

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
E-mail: g.ungar@sheffield.ac.uk

c Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Xiasha College Park, Zhejiang, China

Abstract

Three compounds with a bent rod-like aromatic core and with three alkoxy chains at each end were synthesised by click reaction. The compounds form a columnar liquid crystal phase with non-centrosymmetric trigonal p31m symmetry, the columns having a 3-arm star-like cross-section.

Graphical abstract: Trigonal columnar self-assembly of bent phasmid mesogens

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC06714C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 Aug 2017
Accepted
21 Sep 2017
First published
07 Dec 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 156-159

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Trigonal columnar self-assembly of bent phasmid mesogens

H. Cheng, Y. Li, X. Zeng, H. Gao, X. Cheng and G. Ungar, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 156 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC06714C

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