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Cover Feature: Columnar Liquid Crystals from Star‐Shaped Conjugated Mesogens as Nano‐Reservoirs for Small Acceptors (ChemPlusChem 10/2020)
Author(s) -
Lambov Martin,
Hensiek Nicola,
Pöppler AnnChristin,
Lehmann Matthias
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chempluschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.801
H-Index - 61
ISSN - 2192-6506
DOI - 10.1002/cplu.202000580
Subject(s) - chemistry , liquid crystal , conjugated system , cyan , cover (algebra) , molecule , star (game theory) , orange (colour) , crystallography , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , optics , polymer , physics , astrophysics , mechanical engineering , engineering , food science
The Cover Feature shows star‐shaped, shape‐persistent liquid‐crystalline (LC) hosts with trinitrofluorenone guests (aliphatic chains of the LC hosts are omitted). The star mesogens (orange) provide intrinsic free space for the uptake of up to three trinitrofluorenone guests (cyan) between the oligothiophene arms in columnar mesophases. These systems act as nanoreservoirs for the guest molecules, which considerably stabilize the columnar self‐assembly. More information can be found in the Full Paper by A.‐C. Pöppler, M. Lehmann, and co‐workers.