From metallic cluster-based ceramics to nematic hybrid liquid crystals: a double supramolecular approach

Susanta K Nayak; Maria Amela-Cortes; Claire Roiland; Stéphane Cordier; Yann Molard

doi:10.1039/c4cc10085a

From metallic cluster-based ceramics to nematic hybrid liquid crystals: a double supramolecular approach

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Mar 4;51(18):3774-7. doi: 10.1039/c4cc10085a.

Authors

Susanta K Nayak¹, Maria Amela-Cortes, Claire Roiland, Stéphane Cordier, Yann Molard

Affiliation

¹ Université de Rennes 1 - CNRS UMR 6226 "Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes", Campus de Beaulieu, CS 74205, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. yann.molard@univ-rennes1.fr.

PMID: 25646896
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc10085a

Abstract

We describe a new supramolecular approach combining host-guest and electrostatic interactions to design hybrid materials containing polyanionic bulky inorganic compounds and showing liquid crystalline properties.