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Liquid Crystals Volume 45, 2018 - Issue 9
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Toward well-organised ionic discotic liquid crystals via versatile supramolecular approach

Bin MuKey Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, ChinaView further author information
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Keyang ChenKey Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaView further author information
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Jian ChenKey Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaView further author information
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Jianglin FangCenter for Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaView further author information
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Dongzhong ChenKey Laboratory of High Performance Polymer Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1287-1293 | Received 25 Dec 2017, Accepted 21 Jan 2018, Published online: 30 Jan 2018
 
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ABSTRACT

Various ordered structures of crystalline three-dimensional (3D) cubic, 2D columnar or 1D lamellar mesophases have been facilely achieved through host–guest interactions of electrically neutral host tris(18-crown-6)triphenylene and guest potassium sulfonates with alkyl tails of variant number and length. The convenient construction of functionalised ionic complexes and the flexibility of such a supramolecular approach offer a wide variety of possibilities to prepare various ordered functional soft materials, especially those in their 2D ordered columnar liquid crystalline mesophases may serve as promising electron and ion dual-channel transport organic electronic materials.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21574062) and also partially by Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT).

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