Photochemically and Thermally Driven Full-Color Reflection in a Self-Organized Helical Superstructure Enabled by a Halogen-Bonded Chiral Molecular Switch.
Wang H, Bisoyi HK, Wang L, Urbas AM, Bunning TJ, Li Q.
Wang H, et al.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018 Feb 5;57(6):1627-1631. doi: 10.1002/anie.201712781. Epub 2018 Jan 9.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018.
PMID: 29285875
The photoactive halogen-bonded chiral switch is able to induce a self-organized, tunable helical superstructure, that is, cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC), when doped into an achiral liquid crystal (LC) host. The halogen-bonded switch as a chiral dopant has a high helical …
The photoactive halogen-bonded chiral switch is able to induce a self-organized, tunable helical superstructure, that is, cholesteric liquid …