Reentrant 2D Nanostructured Liquid Crystals by Competition between Molecular Packing and Conformation: Potential Design for Multistep Switching of Ionic Conductivity

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
• ² Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Heat Fluid Flow Technology and Energy Application, School of Physical Science and Technology, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, 215009, China.
• ³ Department of Physics, School of Science, Kitasato University, Kitasato, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0373, Japan.
• ⁴ Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo, Minatojima-Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0047, Japan.
• ⁵ State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710049, China.
• ⁶ Research Initiative for Supra-Materials, Shinshu University, Wakasato, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan.