Hydrogen-Bonded Liquid Crystalline Materials: Supramolecular Polymeric Assembly and the Induction of Dynamic Function

New Functional Polymers Using Host–Guest Chemistry

“…In fact, this strategy is employed to manufacturing a significant number of both common and advanced materials that are necessary for our life. Similar to the covalently cross-linking gels, gel materials that are based on noncovalent binding have attracted a great deal of attention at present from the viewpoint of smart material development [70][71][72][73][74].…”

Formation of supramolecular hydrogels with controlled microstructures and stability via molecular assembling in a two-component system

“…3 and Table 1, it is noticed that the molecules are able to connect one by one into one-dimensional (1D) chain based on duplicate hydrogen bonds between both the nitrogen atom and the amino group and the carboxyl group. Such kind of hydrogen bonds has also been reported in some other supramolecular systems [26].…”

“…1) with many branches suggests that G2 molecules assemble by a different manner from G1. Carrying both donor and acceptor groups, G2 molecules are able to connect with each other via single hydrogen bond between pyridyl and carboxyl groups [26], such connection is proved from the IR spectrum mentioned later. Because the substitute group locates at 3-position of pyridine ring, each time of molecular connection should make the chain end pointing to a different direction from the last one, therefore resulting in somewhat zigzag chain.…”

Synthesis of mesoionic side-chain liquid crystal poly(siloxane)s

“…However, the high viscosity of polymers increases their response time toward external electric fields and thus hinders their commercial applications. There are generally two ways to improve response time of the polymers: the first is by microphase separations [1][2][3][4], and the second is with the introduction of a moiety, which spontaneously aligns the molecule with the external electric field [5][6][7].…”