Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 56, Issue 32, Pages 9546-9550Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201705138
Keywords
bipyrimidine; chirality; liquid crystals; nonlinear optics; thin films
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- French Ministry of Research and Higher Education
- Polish Ministry of Research and Higher Education
- Belgian Ministry of Research and Higher Education
- FWO Flanders
- Hercules Foundation
- [2017-A0020805032]
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The design of efficient noncentrosymmetric materials remains the ultimate goal in the field of organic second-order nonlinear optics. Unlike inorganic crystals currently used in second-order nonlinear optical applications, organic materials are an attractive alternative owing to their fast electro-optical response and processability, but their alignment into noncentrosymmetric film remains challenging. Here, symmetry breaking by judicious functionalization of 3D organic octupoles allows the emergence of multifunctional liquid crystalline chromophores which can easily be processed into large, flexible, thin, and self-oriented films with second harmonic generation responses competitive to the prototypical inorganic KH2PO4 crystals. The liquid-crystalline nature of these chiral organic films also permits the modulation of the nonlinear optical properties owing to the sensitivity of the supramolecular organization to temperature, leading to the development of tunable macroscopic materials.
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