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Luminescence-detected phase transitions in lanthanide-containing liquid crystals
Stéphane Suárez1, Olimpia Mamula, Daniel Imbert
1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Molecular and Biological Chemistry, CH-1015-Lausanne, Switzerland.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 18, 2003
Abstract:
Complexes between lanthanide nitrates and a pro-mesogenic 18-membered diaza-substituted coronand are luminescent both as powders and liquid crystals (between 87 and 195 degrees C), and the phase transitions are detected by monitoring luminescence intensity and lifetime.