Self-Assembled Fibers Containing Stable Organic Radical Moieties: Alignment and Magnetic Properties in Liquid Crystals

Preparation, characterization and magnetic behavior of a spin-labelled physical hydrogel containing a chiral cyclic nitroxide radical unit fixed inside the gelator molecule

(2015) Yusa Takemoto et al.   Soft Matter

Expanding the scope of gels – combining polymers with low-molecular-weight gelators to yield modified self-assembling smart materials with high-tech applications

(2015) Daniel J. Cornwell et al.   Materials Horizons

Discotic Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Gold Nanorods: 2- and 3D Self-Assembly and Macroscopic Alignment as well as Increased Charge Carrier Mobility in Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystal Hosts Affected by Molecular Packing and π-π Interactions

(2014) Xiang Feng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Functional π-Gelators and Their Applications

(2014) Sukumaran Santhosh Babu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Magnetically Aligned Supramolecular Hydrogels

(2014) Matthew Wallace et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis and assembly of nanomaterials under magnetic fields

(2014) Lin Hu et al.   Nanoscale

Development of low-molecular-weight gelators and polymer-based gelators

(2014) Kenji Hanabusa et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

Magneto-optic and converse magnetoelectric effects in a ferromagnetic liquid crystal

(2014) Alenka Mertelj et al.   Soft Matter

Ferromagnetism in suspensions of magnetic platelets in liquid crystal

(2013) Alenka Mertelj et al.   NATURE

Improved stimuli-response and mechanical properties of nanostructured poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-dimethylsiloxane) hydrogels generated through photopolymerization in lyotropic liquid crystal templates

(2013) Bradley S. Forney et al.   Soft Matter

Self-Assembled Gelators for Organic Electronics

(2012) Sukumaran Santhosh Babu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Functional Block Copolymers: Nanostructured Materials with Emerging Applications

(2012) Felix H. Schacher et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The art of aligning one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures

(2012) Bin Su et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Viscoelastic and Photoresponsive Properties of Microparticle/Liquid-Crystal Composite Gels: Tunable Mechanical Strength along with Rapid-Recovery Nature and Photochemical Surface Healing using an Azobenzene Dopant

(2012) Takahiro Yamamoto et al.   LANGMUIR

Light-triggered self-construction of supramolecular organic nanowires as metallic interconnects

(2012) Vina Faramarzi et al.   Nature Chemistry

Liquid-crystalline gels exhibiting electrooptical light scattering properties: fibrous polymerized network of a lysine-based gelator having acrylate moieties

(2012) Hiroki Eimura et al.   POLYMER JOURNAL

Supramolecular approach to the formation of magneto-active physical gels

(2012) Yong Wu et al.   Chemical Science

Playing with organic radicals as building blocks for functional molecular materials

(2011) Imma Ratera et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Supramolecular organic nanotubes: how to utilize the inner nanospace and the outer space

(2011) Naohiro Kameta et al.   Soft Matter

Supramolecular gel chemistry: developments over the last decade

(2010) Jonathan W. Steed   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

From helical polyacetylene to helical graphite: synthesis in the chiral nematic liquid crystal field and morphology-retaining carbonisation

(2010) Munju Goh et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

One-Dimensional Nanostructures of π-Conjugated Molecular Systems: Assembly, Properties, and Applications from Photovoltaics, Sensors, and Nanophotonics to Nanoelectronics†

(2010) Felix Sunjoo Kim et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Positionally Isomeric Organic Gelators: Structure-Gelation Study, Racemic versus Enantiomeric Gelators, and Solvation Effects

(2010) Vesna Čaplar et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

What Kind of “Soft Materials” Can We Design from Molecular Gels?

(2010) Arnab Dawn et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Europium(iii)-doped liquid-crystalline physical gels

(2010) Thomas Cardinaels et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Solution Phase Epitaxial Self-Assembly and High Charge-Carrier Mobility Nanofibers of Semiconducting Molecular Gelators

(2010) Seelam Prasanthkumar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-Assembly of Thienylenevinylene Molecular Wires to Semiconducting Gels with Doped Metallic Conductivity

(2010) Seelam Prasanthkumar et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Anisotropic Self-Assembly of Photoluminescent Oligo(p-Phenylenevinylene) Derivatives in Liquid Crystals: An Effective Strategy for the Macroscopic Alignment ofπ-Gels

(2009) Yuki Hirai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Self-assembly of functional columnar liquid crystals

(2009) Takashi Kato et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Electro- and Photoactive Molecular Assemblies of Liquid Crystals and Physical Gels

(2009) Takashi Kato et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Liquid crystalline magnetic materials

(2009) L. Zadoina et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Electric Field-Assisted Alignment of Self-Assembled Fibers Composed of Hydrogen-Bonded Molecules Having Laterally Fluorinated Mesogens

(2009) Masafumi Yoshio et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

One-Dimensional Self-Assembly of Planar π-Conjugated Molecules: Adaptable Building Blocks for Organic Nanodevices

(2008) Ling Zang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

High-Tech Applications of Self-Assembling Supramolecular Nanostructured Gel-Phase Materials: From Regenerative Medicine to Electronic Devices

(2008) Andrew R. Hirst et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Paramagnetic all-organic chiral liquid crystals

(2008) Rui Tamura et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Organogel Formation by a Cholesterol-Stoppered Bistable [2]Rotaxane and Its Dumbbell Precursor

(2008) Yan-Li Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Templating Nanoporous Polymers with Ordered Block Copolymers†

(2007) David A. Olson et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS