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LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 553-563Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678290500125616
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We report the properties of eutectic mixtures of triphenylenes displaying a highly ordered columnar phase with a low molar mass non-discotic compound. Such highly ordered triphenylenes display large charge carrier mobilities which are strongly controlled by the state of order in the discotic phase. The motivation was to establish how the state of order molecular order, phase morphology, temperature ranges of phase stabilities and macroscopic orientational order - can be influenced by mixing. The studies reveal that the molecular order, in particular the mutual arrangement of the columns and the intracolumnar order, are unaffected by dilution of the discotic compound, whereas the phase morphology and the kinetics of phase separation change significantly with dilution. Rod-shaped discotic domains with a hexagonal cross-sectional area are formed via a nucleation process and the rods grow linearly as a function of time. Both the pure discotic phase as well as the discotic domains forming during phase separation can be macroscopically ordered by orientation layers.
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