Perspective on structure-property relationship of room temperature single-component liquid crystals

G Shanker, KRS Kumar, B Paul - Liquid Crystals, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Ever since the serendipitous discovery of liquid crystals (LC) by Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888,
a significant number of LCs have been synthesised and characterised. The ever-growing …

Visible-Light Responsive Azobenzene and Cholesterol Based Liquid Crystals as Efficient Solid-State Solar–Thermal Fuels

A Krishna KM, S Sony, S Dhingra… - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Solar–thermal fuels (STFs) based on photoresponsive molecules, which can harvest and
store solar energy by the configurational change of molecules and can release it in the form …

Azobenzene-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase

DA Paterson, R Walker, JP Abberley, J Forestier… - Liquid …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The synthesis and characterisation of two new sets of non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers is
reported, the 1-(4-substitutedazobenzene-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) hexanes …

Fluorescein-appended calixarene-functionalized supramolecular AIE-active liquid crystalline materials for self-assembly and bio-imaging applications

VS Sharma, U Patel, S Thakar, SL Rathod… - New Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports fluorescein-linked calixarene-based columnar liquid crystals with a broad
temperature range of mesophases. The photophysical and density functional theory (DFT) …

Color-tunable photoluminescent discotic liquid crystal based on perylene–Pentaalkynylbenzene triad

S Rani, SP Gupta, M Gupta, SK Pal - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
This article describes the design and development of a discotic triad, where perylene is
sandwiched between two pentaalkynyl benzene units, linked via a flexible alkyl spacer. The …

First examples of room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystals exhibiting ambipolar charge carrier mobilities

M Gupta, AK Km, S Sony, S Dhingra, A Shah… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Four new room-temperature nematic liquid-crystalline (LC) dimers consisting of a wedge-
shaped 3, 4, 5-tridecyloxy gallic ester molecule linked to either cyanobiphenyl, cholesteryl …

A new strategy towards the synthesis of a room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystal employing triphenylene and pentaalkynylbenzene units

M Gupta, SP Gupta, MV Rasna, D Adhikari… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A new approach is reported for the design of a room-temperature discotic nematic (ND)
liquid crystal (LC) dimer consisting of a triphenylene and a pentaalkynylbenzene unit linked …

Synthesis, characterization and photophysical study of cholesterol functionalized azo-based room temperature liquid crystals

H Mali, VS Sharma, SL Rathod, AS Sharma… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Four new liquid crystalline materials (HA 1-HA 4) with cholesteryl group and azo-ester
linking group interconnected with two-side substituted flexible alkoxy side chains were …

Synthesis of cholesterol containing unsymmetrical dimers: a new series of liquid crystals

TEA Frizon, AA Vieira, FC Giacomelli, R Cercená… - Liquid …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We report an efficient and practical procedure for the synthesis of cholesterol containing
unsymmetrical liquid crystals dimers. Liquid crystalline and thermal properties were studied …

Room‐temperature oligomeric discotic nematic liquid crystals over a wide temperature range: structure–property relationships

M Gupta, SP Gupta, SS Mohapatra… - … –A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The design and synthesis of three room‐temperature discotic nematic (ND) liquid crystals
(LCs) is presented. The LC consists of an azobenzene core attached to which are four …