title: Influence of Perfluoroarene-Arene Interactions on the Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystalline and Polymeric Materials.
abstract: A stabilization of the liquid-crystalline mesophase and thus an enlarged temperature range of the mesogenic phase is achieved by adding perfluorotriphenylene to a chiral liquid-crystalline triphenylene. This mesophase is based on 1:1 perfluoroarene-arene interactions (see picture). In a polymer with triphenylenes as mesogens in the side chains, the addition of perfluorotriphenylene led to crystallization.
authors.affiliation: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratories of Chemical Synthesis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (USA).
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weck
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Coates
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Lobkovsky
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Grubbs