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  • Materials Science
  • Supramolecular Chemistry
  • Organic Electronics

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  • Columnar liquid crystals (CLCs) are crucial for advanced materials due to their ordered structures.
  • Developing CLCs with low molecular mass and high thermal stability remains a challenge.
  • Sym-triazine cores offer a versatile platform for designing functional mesogens.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To synthesize and characterize novel CLCs based on dissymmetrically substituted sym-triazine.
  • To investigate the influence of molecular symmetry and ester group length on mesophase stability and glass transitions.
  • To evaluate the film-forming properties and thermal stability of the resulting liquid crystalline materials.

Main Methods:

  • Mixed dissymmetric substitution of sym-triazine with phenyl, phenanthryl, or tetrahelicenyl moieties bearing ester groups.
  • Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to determine thermal transitions.
  • Optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction to analyze mesophase structure.
  • Fluorescence spectroscopy to assess emission properties of cast films.

Main Results:

  • Achieved columnar liquid crystals with very low molecular masses forming anisotropic glasses well above room temperature.
  • Stabilized mesophases over large temperature ranges due to low molecular symmetry, configurational flexibility, and short polar ester moieties.
  • Demonstrated that short ester groups (ethyl) are sufficient for liquid crystallinity, minimizing insulating alkyl peripheries.
  • Drop-cast films exhibited stable fluorescence emission upon annealing, indicating direct formation of columnar hexagonal mesoscopic order resistant to crystallization.

Conclusions:

  • Novel sym-triazine-based CLCs with low molecular mass and high thermal stability were successfully synthesized.
  • Molecular design strategies involving dissymmetric substitution and short ester groups are effective for tuning liquid crystalline properties.
  • The materials form ordered, stable films directly from solution, showing potential for applications in organic electronics and photonics.