Driving force balance—the “identity card” of supramolecules in a self-sorting multicomponent assembly system

Abstract

Contrary to popular belief that multicomponent assembly systems will theoretically co-assemble under the same type of driving forces, two distinct assembly modes from a system composed of two chemically similar...

[Paper] Stabilization Effect of Self-Assembly Dendrimer Doped Cholesteric Liquid Crystal on Helical Structure

“…The operation principle of the proposed method using self-assembly dendrimers with lysine groups (POSS-Lys) is as follows. According to the literature [11][12][13][14] , this dendrimer can be formed a nano-sized aggregation structure in nematic-phase liquid crystals. The concentration of POSS-Lys over 0.5 wt% induces randomly-aligned LC and light scattering state 13) .…”

“…Interestingly, the dendrimer enables the reconstruction of fibril or network structure by temperature control 14) . This reconstruction characteristic is based on reversible hydrogen bonding among self-assembly lysine groups 11,12) , as shown in Fig. 1 (c).…”

“…In this paper, we proposed the mixture of CLC and self-assembly dendrimer with lysine groups for exploration of the unique functionality in CLC. Previous reports clarified that the dendrimer molecules in nematic-phase LC enable the formation of nano-sized fibril and self-aggregated fibrils (network structure) 11,12) . Besides, we clarified that this dendrimer has an anchoring effect on liquid crystalline molecules 13) .…”