Light-driven liquid crystalline materials: from photo-induced phase transitions and property modulations to applications

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

Semiconducting π-conjugated systems in field-effect transistors: a material odyssey of organic electronics

C Wang, H Dong, W Hu, Y Liu, D Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of highly conducting polyacetylene by Shirakawa, MacDiarmid, and
Heeger1 in 1977, π-conjugated systems have attracted much attention as futuristic materials …

Ordered materials for organic electronics and photonics

M O'Neill, SM Kelly - Advanced Materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We present a critical review of semiconducting/light emitting, liquid crystalline materials and
their use in electronic and photonic devices such as transistors, photovoltaics, OLEDs and …

Tuning the columnar organization of discotic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

W Pisula, X Feng, K Müllen - Advanced Materials, 2010 - infona.pl
The control of the intracolumnar organization of disc‐shaped polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons has essential influence on material's properties including thermotropic …

Stimuli directed alignment of self-organized one-dimensional semiconducting columnar liquid crystal nanostructures for organic electronics

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Electronic devices are ubiquitous and inorganic semiconductors generally serve as their
active components. Recently, organic semiconductors, ie, conjugated polymers, oligomers …

Nanostructured liquid crystals combining ionic and electronic functions

S Yazaki, M Funahashi, J Kagimoto… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
New molecular materials combining ionic and electronic functions have been prepared by
using liquid crystals consisting of terthiophene-based mesogens and terminal imidazolium …

Supramolecular soft and hard materials based on self-assembly algorithms of alkyl-conjugated fullerenes

T Nakanishi - Chemical Communications, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Dimensionally controlled and hierarchically assembled supramolecular architectures in
nano/micro/bulk length scales are formed by self-organization of alkyl-conjugated fullerenes …

A Planarized Triphenylborane Mesogen: Discotic Liquid Crystals with Ambipolar Charge‐Carrier Transport Properties

T Kushida, A Shuto, M Yoshio, T Kato… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A discotic liquid‐crystalline (LC) material, consisting of a planarized triphenylborane
mesogen, was synthesized. X‐ray diffraction analysis confirmed that this compound forms a …

High open-circuit voltage under the bulk photovoltaic effect for the chiral smectic crystal phase of a double chiral ferroelectric liquid crystal doped with a fullerene …

M Funahashi - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A bulk photovoltaic effect was studied in a chiral smectic crystal phase of a
bisfluorophenylterthiophene derivative bearing two lactate moieties doped with a fullerene …

High solid-state efficiency fluorescent main chain liquid crystalline polytriazoles with aggregation-induced emission characteristics

WZ Yuan, ZQ Yu, Y Tang, JWY Lam, N Xie, P Lu… - …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent liquid crystals (LCs) have wide applications in optoelectronic devices. However,
the synthesis of high solid-state emission efficiency LCs is difficult. On one hand, impeding …