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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 29, 期 8, 页码 3563-3571出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b05430
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- National Science Foundation (DMREF) [DMR-1435195]
- Army Research Office [W911NF-14-1-0140]
- Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Biological and Environmental Research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
- Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- DOE [DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1435241, 1435195] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We report the use of computational chemistry methods to design a chemically responsive liquid crystal (LC). Specifically, we used electronic structure calculations to model the binding of nitrile-containing mesogens (4'-n-pentyl-4-biphenylcarbonitrile) to metal perchlorate salts (with explicit description of the perchlorate anion), which we call the coordinately saturated anion model (CSAM). The model results were validated against experimental data. We then used the CSAM to predict that selective fluorination can reduce the strength of binding of nitrile-containing nematic LCs to metal salt-decorated surfaces and thus generate a faster reordering of the LC in response to competitive binding of dimethylmethylphosphonate (DMMP). We tested this prediction via synthesis of fluorinated compounds 3-fluoro-4'-pentyl[1,1'-biphenyl]-4-carbonitrile and 4-fluoro-4'-pentyl-1,1'-biphenyl, and subsequent experimental measurements of the orientational response of LCs containing these compounds to DMMP. These experimental measurements confirmed the theoretical predictions, thus providing the first demonstration of a chemoresponsive LC system designed from computational chemistry.
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