화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.647, No.1, 279-289, 2017
Preparation and magnetic properties of nitroxide radical liquid crystalline physical gels
Liquid crystalline physical gels which consist of a chiral racemic nitroxide radical compound (+/-)-1 showing a nematic phase and a diamagnetic, chiral organic gelator (R,R)-2 were prepared to investigate the effects of the gelator on the positive magneto-LC effects observed in the nematic phase of (+/-)-1 and the molecular alignment of (+/-)-1 in the resulting nematic gels. With the increasing amount of the gelator which decreased the domain size, the molecular reorientation by a magnetic field (0.34 T) was considerably restricted in the nematic gel phase and the intermolecular magnetic interactions (positive magneto-LC effects) increased in the fine and random nematic polydomain structure formed by self-assembled fibers of organic gelator molecules.