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Columnar Liquid Crystals from Shape‐Persistent Dendritic Molecules
Author(s) -
Pesak Douglas J.,
Moore Jeffrey S.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199716361
Subject(s) - phenylacetylene , columnar phase , hexagonal crystal system , materials science , molecule , crystallography , dendrimer , liquid crystal , phase (matter) , series (stratigraphy) , chemical physics , nanotechnology , liquid crystalline , chemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , geology , paleontology , catalysis , optoelectronics
The molecular geometry is mirrored in the macroscopically ordered patterns found in a series of stiff, phenylacetylene dendrimers 1 . These compounds form hexagonal columnar liquid crystalline phase with snowflake‐like morphologies.