title: A bundled-stack discotic columnar liquid crystalline phase with inter-stack electronic coupling.
abstract: The first compound capable of forming a bundled-stack discotic columnar liquid crystalline (BSDCLC) phase was designed and synthesized. The unique perylene anhydride inter-stack interaction was found to be the key to the formation of the BSDCLC structure and inter-stack electronic coupling (ISEC).
authors.affiliation: Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, Department of Chemistry, College of Staten Island and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Staten Island, NY 10314, USA. shi.jin@csi.cuny.edu.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: D D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Günbaş
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Grozema
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jin