Horizontally and vertically aligned helical conjugated polymers: Comprehensive formation mechanisms of helical fibrillar morphologies in orientation-controlled asymmetric reaction fields consisting of chiral nematic liquid crystals†
Abstract
Orientation-controlled asymmetric reaction fields consisting of chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LCs) were comprehensively studied to elucidate the formation mechanisms of horizontally and vertically aligned helical polyacetylenes (H-PAs). The alignment of the N*-LC was controlled by tuning the concentration of a chiral molecule added as a chiral dopant to a parent nematic