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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 3, Issue 22, Pages 5754-5763Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5tc00661a
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- University of Leeds
- EPSRC [EP/G032726/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G032726/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The synthesis is reported for a main chain polymer in which the repeat units are 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaphenyltriphenylene moieties linked through flexible dodecyl chains. In compositions with a series of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexakis(alkoxy)triphenylenes (HATn) this new polymer forms stable hexagonal columnar liquid crystal phases. These are investigated in detail using optical polarised microscopy (OPM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). In these mixtures, suppression of crystallisation and enhancement of the clearing temperatures leads to very wide liquid crystal ranges: much wider than those for the HATn materials on their own. For the longer chain HATn compounds (n = 12-16) a columnar rectangular phase is also observed. The enhancement of the liquid crystal phase range is attributed to stabilising complementary polytopic interactions between the planar aromatic moieties.
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