Discotic liquid crystals stabilized by interionic interactions: imidazolium ion-anchored paraffinic triphenylene.
Incorporation of imidazolium ion functionalities into the paraffinic side-chain termini of a triphenylene derivative resulted in stabilization of a columnar mesophase of its liquid crystalline assembly, which was retained over a wider temperature range down to 4 degrees C by an externally added imidazolium-based ionic liquid.
Motoyanagi
Jin
J
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656.
Fukushima
Takanori
T
Aida
Takuzo
T