Advanced functional liquid crystals

J Uchida, B Soberats, M Gupta, T Kato - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Functional liquid crystals towards the next generation of materials

T Kato, J Uchida, T Ichikawa… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state in 1888, liquid crystal science has made
great advances through fusion with various technologies and disciplines. Recently, new …

Transport of ions and electrons in nanostructured liquid crystals

T Kato, M Yoshio, T Ichikawa, B Soberats… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The nanosegregated structures of columnar, smectic and bicontinuous cubic liquid crystals
can provide well-organized, nano-and sub-nanosized 1D, 2D and 3D channels capable of …

Development of structural complexity by liquid‐crystal self‐assembly

C Tschierske - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state of matter 125 years ago, this field has
developed into a scientific area with many facets. This Review presents recent …

C–H arylation reaction: atom efficient and greener syntheses of π-conjugated small molecules and macromolecules for organic electronic materials

K Okamoto, J Zhang, JB Housekeeper… - …, 2013 - ACS Publications
π-Conjugated small molecules, oligomers, and macromolecules are being used in the
fabrication of a wide variety of organic electronic devices such as organic field-effect …

[图书][B] Chemistry of discotic liquid crystals: from monomers to polymers

S Kumar - 2016 - books.google.com
Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-
organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional …

Recent progress in luminescent liquid crystal materials: design, properties and application for linearly polarised emission

Y Wang, J Shi, J Chen, W Zhu… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Luminescent liquid crystal (LC) materials have attracted significant interest for organic
optoelectronic applications, especially for linearly polarised emission, because of their …

Supramolecular association and nanostructure formation of liquid crystals and polymers for new functional materials

T Kato, M Gupta, D Yamaguchi, KP Gan… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We here describe our various concepts and achievements for material science, which have
been introduced through liquid-crystalline (LC) and polymer chemistry. They have resulted …

Electro-functional octupolar π-conjugated columnar liquid crystals

T Yasuda, T Shimizu, F Liu, G Ungar… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A series of propeller-shaped π-conjugated molecules based on 2, 4, 6-tris (thiophene-2-yl)-
1, 3, 5-triazines has been designed and synthesized to obtain ambipolar charge …

3D interconnected ionic nano-channels formed in polymer films: self-organization and polymerization of thermotropic bicontinuous cubic liquid crystals

T Ichikawa, M Yoshio, A Hamasaki… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Thermotropic bicontinuous cubic (Cubbi) liquid-crystalline (LC) compounds based on a
polymerizable ammonium moiety complexed with a lithium salt have been designed to …