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Molecular Shape and Polar Order in Columnar Liquid Crystals

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ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
卷 55, 期 20, 页码 3010-3019

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00452

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  1. Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation
  2. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

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Bottom-up materials design using liquid crystals allows for the creation of materials with dynamic properties and directional order through cooperative interactions and the application of electric/magnetic fields. This is achieved through the thermal excitation of side chains and the anisotropic attractions between mesogenic cores in the liquid crystal state. Unconventional mesogens offer opportunities for the creation of responsive molecular assemblies with optical, electronic, or magnetic activity.
Bottom-up materials design by the conceiving of new molecular building blocks is powerful and chemists are uniquely qualified to innovate. Liquid crystals (LCs) and related soft crystals, collectively called mesophases, naturally create materials with dynamic properties. The thermotropic LC state has a liquid-like intermolecular disorder, but the cooperative nature of these materials facilitates a long-range directional order (alignment) that couples strongly to applied electric/magnetic fields and interfaces. Thermotropic LCs are held together by mesogen cores, which are often unsaturated with anisotropic polarizability, and are appended with flexible (often n-alkane) side chains. Thermal excitation of the side chains produces large amplitude motions that drive a melting transition, and the anisotropic attractions between mesogenic cores produce a directional organization that produces the LC order. LCs are liquids as defined by thermodynamics and may not contain three-dimensional (3D) organization. However, in many cases there are 3D ordered phases below the melting temperatures, which are soft (deformable) plastic materials. Unconventional mesogens offer opportunities to create responsive molecular assemblies with optical, electronic, or magnetic activity. I will detail in this account my efforts to control these dynamic states with the goal of creating polar organizations in columnar LCs. The use of molecular shape, dative bonding, and dynamic correlations between molecules in fluid/plastic phases will be highlighted and how applied electric fields can polarize select materials.

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