title: Superfluorinated Ionic Liquid Crystals Based on Supramolecular, Halogen-Bonded Anions.
abstract: Unconventional ionic liquid crystals in which the liquid crystallinity is enabled by halogen-bonded supramolecular anions [Cn F2 n+1 -I⋅⋅⋅I⋅⋅⋅I-Cn F2 n+1 ](-) are reported. The material system is unique in many ways, demonstrating for the first time 1) ionic, halogen-bonded liquid crystals, and 2) imidazolium-based ionic liquid crystals in which the occurrence of liquid crystallinity is not driven by the alkyl chains of the cation.
authors.affiliation: NFMLab, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy. gabriella.cavallo@polimi.it.
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cavallo
authors.affiliation: NFMLab, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Terraneo
authors.affiliation: NFMLab, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Monfredini
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 541, FI, 33101, Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saccone
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 541, FI, 33101, Tampere, Finland.
authors.forename: Arri
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Priimagi
authors.affiliation: NFMLab, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Tullio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pilati
authors.affiliation: NFMLab, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy. giuseppe.resnati@polimi.it.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Resnati
authors.affiliation: NFMLab, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Via L. Mancinelli 7, 20131, Milan, Italy. pierangelo.metrangolo@polimi.it.|VTT-Technical Research Centre of Finland, Biologinkuja 7, 02150, Espoo, Finland. pierangelo.metrangolo@polimi.it.
authors.forename: Pierangelo
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7945-099X
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Metrangolo
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK. duncan.bruce@york.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Duncan W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Bruce
keywords: fluorophobic effect; halogen bonding; ionic liquid crystals; self-assembly; supramolecular chemistry