Coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing poly(vinylpyrrolidone) microfibres

• Eva Enz,
• Ute Baumeister and
• Jan Lagerwall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 58, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.58

• unexpected when considering the viscosity anisotropy of the liquid crystal kept in its smectic phase during electrospinning. Keywords: coaxial electrospinning; composite material; core-sheath fibres; liquid crystal; smectic phase; Introduction Electrospinning is a versatile process for producing nano- and

Chiral amplification in a cyanobiphenyl nematic liquid crystal doped with helicene-like derivatives

• Alberta Ferrarini,
• Silvia Pieraccini,
• Stefano Masiero and
• Gian Piero Spada

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 50, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.50

• induction can be explained in general terms as the result of the competition between (i) a chiral force, which originates from the chirality of intermolecular interactions and promotes a twist of the nematic director and (ii) an elastic restoring force, which can be traced back to the anisotropy of

• organisation, the Surface Chirality (SC) model has been shown to be particularly useful [31][32]. This is a phenomenological mean field theory wherein the anisotropy and chirality of the interactions of the dopant with the surrounding molecules are parameterized on the basis of the geometric features of the

• very small and we can see that they are obtained just for the two derivatives with the lowest measured HTPs. Indeed, the twisting ability of a given dopant results from a delicate balance of chirality and anisotropy of dopant–host interactions and predictions of small effects would require a very

Shape- persistent macrocycle with intraannular alkyl groups: some structural limits of discotic liquid crystals with an inverted structure

• Sigurd Höger,
• Jill Weber,
• Andreas Leppert and
• Volker Enkelmann

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 1, doi:10.1186/1860-5397-4-1

• to cross the rings and to fill their interior completely. The investigation of the thermal behavior has shown that the smaller cycles do not exhibit thermotropic mesophases. Single crystal x-ray analysis indicates that the anisotropy in these compounds is too small to describe them as plates rather

• compounds the lateral extension of the macrocycles 9 is rather small. The distance between the two diacetylene bridges in 9 is around 1.2 nm compared to 2.3 nm in 1. Since the intraannular alkyl chains are located above and below the macrocyclic framework, the anisotropy of the compound is remarkably lower