Viologen-based redox-active ionic liquid crystals forming columnar phases.
Viologens possessing three alkoxy chains at each terminal self-organize into columnar liquid-crystalline phases through nanophase segregation and electrostatic interactions. These viologens are redox-active and susceptible to two consecutive electrochemical reductions.
Tanabe
Kana
K
Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Yasuda
Takuma
T
Yoshio
Masafumi
M
Kato
Takashi
T