Zhuoqing Li, Aileen Raab, Mohamed Aejaz Kolmangadi, Mark Busch, Marco Grunwald, Felix Demel, Florian Bertram, Andriy V Kityk, Andreas Schönhals, Sabine Laschat, Patrick Huber
Discotic ionic liquid crystals (DILCs) consist of self-assembled superdiscs of cations and anions that spontaneously stack in linear columns with high one-dimensional ionic and electronic charge mobility, making them prominent model systems for functional soft matter. Compared to classical nonionic discotic liquid crystals, many liquid crystalline structures with a combination of electronic and ionic conductivity have been reported, which are of interest for separation membranes, artificial ion/proton conducting membranes, and optoelectronics...
May 17, 2024: ACS Nano