title: Functional organic materials based on polymerized liquid-crystal monomers: supramolecular hydrogen-bonded systems.
abstract: Functional organic materials are of great interest for a variety of applications. To obtain precise functional properties, well-defined hierarchically ordered supramolecular materials are crucial. The self-assembly of liquid crystals has proven to be an extremely useful tool in the development of well-defined nanostructured materials. We have chosen the illustrative example of photopolymerizable hydrogen-bonding mesogens to show that a wide variety of functional materials can be made from a relatively simple set of building blocks. Upon mixing these compounds with other reactive mesogens, nematic, chiral nematic, and smectic or columnar liquid-crystalline phases can be formed that can be applied as actuators, sensors and responsive reflectors, and nanoporous membranes, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Functional Organic Materials and Devices, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Dirk J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Broer
authors.forename: Cees M W
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bastiaansen
authors.forename: Michael G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Debije
authors.forename: Albertus P H J
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Schenning