Poppe M, Chen C, Liu F, Poppe S, Tschierske C. Emergence of uniform tilt and π-stacking in triangular liquid crystalline honeycombs.
Chem Commun (Camb) 2021;
57:6526-6529. [PMID:
34105554 DOI:
10.1039/d1cc02556b]
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Abstract
The synclinic tilted organization of specifically designed polyphilic oligo(p-phenylene ethynylene) rods in cylindrical shells around triangular prismatic cells on the <5 nm scale leads to a new kind of liquid crystalline honeycomb composed of helical shells with alternating helix sense. Core fluorination at the outer ring modifies the core-core interactions, thus resulting in triangular arrays with face-to-face π-stacking along the honeycomb.
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