Design and syntheses of some heterocyclic liquid crystals and organogelators

Abstract

Liquid crystals LCs are unique functional soft materials combining both order and mobility on molecular supramolecular and macroscopic levels Discotic LCs also have made notable progress in recent years and they are finding a foothold in the main stream of organic electronics Polycatenars and star shaped molecules in particular display a remarkable mesophase behavior and they belong nonconventional LCs Gelators are another class of molecules with specific structural features which immobi