Columnar liquid crystalline pi-conjugated oligothiophenes.
Polycatenar oligothiophenes possessing three alkoxy chains at each terminal self-organise into columnar liquid crystalline phases, and one-dimensional columnar stacks can be oriented uniaxially by mechanical shearing in the mesophases.
Yasuda
Takuma
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Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
Kishimoto
Kenji
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Kato
Takashi
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