Covalently grafting nonmesogenic moieties onto polyoxometalate for fabrication of thermotropic liquid-crystalline nanomaterials. Issue 1 (7th November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lin, Chang-Gen; Chen, Wei; Omwoma, Solomon; Song, Yu-Fei
• Is Part Of: Journal of materials chemistry. Volume 3:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 15
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2014-11-07
• Subjects: Materials -- Periodicals; Chemistry, Analytic -- Periodicals; Optical materials -- Research -- Periodicals; Electronics -- Materials -- Research -- Periodicals; 543.0284
• DOI: 10.1039/c4tc02142h
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2050-7526

Abstract

Abstract : We demonstrated the first class of polyoxometalate-containing thermotropic liquid-crystalline materials constructed from nonmesogenic moieties. Abstract : We demonstrated herein the first class of polyoxometalate-containing thermotropic liquid-crystalline materials, in which the nonmesogenic organic moieties were covalently tethered onto the nanoscaled polyoxometalate. These materials showed the layered smectic A (SmA) phase when cooling from the isotropic state.