Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages 19506-19525Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms141019506
Keywords
structure and dynamics; surfaces and external fields; single molecule; liquid crystal; nematic; smectic; lyotropic; thermotropic; diffusion; polarization; conjugated polymer; biopolymer
Funding
- German Research Foundation within the research group FOR-877
- German Research Foundation/DFG [INST 270/219-1]
- Technische Universitat Chemnitz
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Single molecule (SM) methods are able to resolve structure related dynamics of guest molecules in liquid crystals (LC). Highly diluted small dye molecules on the one hand explore structure formation and LC dynamics, on the other hand they report about a distortion caused by the guest molecules. The anisotropic structure of LC materials is used to retrieve specific conformation related properties of larger guest molecules like conjugated polymers. This in particular sheds light on organization mechanisms within biological cells, where large molecules are found in nematic LC surroundings. This review gives a short overview related to the application of highly sensitive SM detection schemes in LC.
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