Self-assembly and thermotropic liquid crystal properties of a hexavacant germanomolybdate: [Ge2Mo16O58]12−

CrystEngComm ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
pp. 6784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Qing Gao ◽  
Zhi-Ming Zhang ◽  
Jian-Qiang Shen ◽  
Yue Jia ◽  
Zhu-Jun Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Crystal Properties

Reversible microscale assembly of nanoparticles driven by the phase transition of a thermotropic liquid crystal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niamh Mac Fhionnlaoich ◽  
Stephen Schrettl ◽  
Nicholas B. Tito ◽  
Ye Yang ◽  
Malavika Nair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Hierarchical Control ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Model System ◽  
Microscopic Level ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

The arrangement of nanoscale building blocks into patterns with microscale periodicity is challenging to achieve via self-assembly processes. Here, we report on the phase transition-driven collective assembly of gold nanoparticles in a thermotropic liquid crystal. A temperature-induced transition from the isotropic to the nematic phase leads to the assembly of individual nanometre-sized particles into arrays of micrometre-sized aggregates, whose size and characteristic spacing can be tuned by varying the cooling rate. This fully reversible process offers hierarchical control over structural order on the molecular, nanoscopic, and microscopic level and is an interesting model system for the programmable patterning of nanocomposites with access to micrometre-sized periodicities.

scholarly journals A robust Ti(iv)-based mesogen constructed around a TiO4N2 core

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 1960-1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Barloy ◽  
B. Heinrich ◽  
L. Douce ◽  
M. Henry ◽  
M. Scarpi-Luttenauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Crystal Properties

A Ti(iv)-complex with thermotropic liquid crystal properties is reported.

Function and Application of Calixarene Derivatives

2014 ◽  
Vol 887-888 ◽  
pp. 647-650
Author(s):  
Ri Hong Tan
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Main Compound ◽  
Molecule Reaction ◽  
Drug Molecules ◽  
Crystal Properties ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
New Type ◽  
Molecular Catalysis ◽  
Macrocyclic Molecules

Calixarene is the third generation of the main compound. Its molecular recognition, simulation enzyme catalysis, molecular catalysis, analytical chemistry, self-assembly, and other areas of research have made great progress. calixarene represent a well-known family of macrocyclic molecules with broad range of potential applications in engineering materials fields. calixarene derivatives for simulating biological system, or in the form of new drug molecules targeting molecule reaction vessel, molecular switches, etc.; Under certain conditions because some new calixarene derivatives with the liquid crystal properties, so some new type of liquid crystal materials can be screened and prepared.

Photomodulated Self-Assembly of Hydrophobic Thiol Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanorods and Their Alignment in Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (41) ◽  
pp. 21603-21608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenming Xue ◽  
Karla Gutierrez-Cuevas ◽  
Min Gao ◽  
Augustine Urbas ◽  
Quan Li
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Gold Nanorods ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

scholarly journals Evidence of nanodiamond-self-assembly in a liquid crystal, and the consequent impacts on the liquid crystal properties

AIP Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 075008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajratan Basu ◽  
Nicole Skaggs ◽  
Samuel Shalov ◽  
Peter Brereton
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Crystal Properties

scholarly journals Reversible microscale assembly of nanoparticles driven by the phase transition of a thermotropic liquid crystal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niamh Mac Fhionnlaoich ◽  
Stephen Schrettl ◽  
Nicholas B. Tito ◽  
Ye Yang ◽  
Malavika Nair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Hierarchical Control ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Model System ◽  
Microscopic Level ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

The arrangement of nanoscale building blocks into patterns with microscale periodicity is challenging to achieve via self-assembly processes. Here, we report on the phase transition-driven collective assembly of gold nanoparticles in a thermotropic liquid crystal. A temperature-induced transition from the isotropic to the nematic phase leads to the assembly of individual nanometre-sized particles into arrays of micrometre-sized aggregates, whose size and characteristic spacing can be tuned by varying the cooling rate. This fully reversible process offers hierarchical control over structural order on the molecular, nanoscopic, and microscopic level and is an interesting model system for the programmable patterning of nanocomposites with access to micrometre-sized periodicities.

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