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Electric‐Field Modulation of Component Exchange in Constitutional Dynamic Liquid Crystals
Author(s) -
Giuseppone Nicolas,
Lehn JeanMarie
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200600430
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , electric field , field (mathematics) , condensed matter physics , dielectric , imine , phase transition , phase (matter) , component (thermodynamics) , anisotropy , materials science , liquid crystalline , chemical physics , chemistry , physics , thermodynamics , optics , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , pure mathematics , catalysis
Playing the field : Application of an electric field to the thermodynamic equilibria of constitutionally dynamic sets of imines and amines that contain an imine with liquid‐crystalline properties and a negative dielectric anisotropy leads to the amplification of the constituent that couples most strongly to the electric field, namely the liquid crystal (LC, see example). The field can thus induce a liquid to nematic phase transition.