| Literature DB >> 28092132 |
Stefanie Herbst1, Bartolome Soberats2, Pawaret Leowanawat1, Matthias Lehmann1,2, Frank Würthner1,2.
Abstract
A new perylene bisimide (PBI) dye self-assembles through hydrogen bonds and π-π interactions into J-aggregates that in turn self-organize into liquid-crystalline (LC) columnar hexagonal domains. The PBI cores are organized with the transition dipole moments parallel to the columnar axis, which is an unprecedented structural organization in π-conjugated columnar liquid crystals. Middle and wide-angle X-ray analyses reveal a helical structure consisting of three self-assembled hydrogen-bonded PBI strands that constitute a single column of the columnar hexagonal phase. This remarkable assembly mode for columnar liquid crystals may afford new anisotropic LC materials for applications in photonics.Entities:
Keywords: J-aggregates; anisotropic materials; liquid crystals; perylene bisimide; self-assembly
Year: 2017 PMID: 28092132 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201612047
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl ISSN: 1433-7851 Impact factor: 15.336