2023•Materials AdvancesOpen access

Vanishing tails and a resilient mesophase: columnar liquid crystals in the limit of short tails

Parikshit Guragain, Mitchell Powers, John J. Portman, Brett Ellman, Robert J. Twieg

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We present discotic liquid crystals consisting of fluorinated triphenylene with unusually short tails, including mere methoxy or ethoxy tails. Understanding these short-tailed liquid crystals may lead to new applications for discotic liquid crystals.

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Key concepts: Triphenylene, Mesophase, Discotic liquid crystal, Liquid crystal, Columnar phase, Limit (mathematics), Materials science, Alkoxy group