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Improved Electronic Transport in Ion Complexes of Crown Ether Based Columnar Liquid Crystals

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العنوان: Improved Electronic Transport in Ion Complexes of Crown Ether Based Columnar Liquid Crystals
المؤلفون: Peter Staffeld, Martin Kaller, Philipp Ehni, Max Ebert, Sabine Laschat, Frank Giesselmann
المصدر: Crystals, Vol 9, Iss 2, p 74 (2019)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: LCC:Crystallography
مصطلحات موضوعية: liquid crystals, columnar, discotic, crown ether, electron transport, ion transport, ion channels, impedance spectroscopy, photoconductivity, X-ray diffraction, salt effect, Crystallography, QD901-999
الوصف: The Li+- and K+-complexes of new discotic mesogens, where two n-alkoxy-substituted triphenylene cores are connected by a central crown ether (12-crown-4 and 18-crown-6), provide interesting structural and electronic properties. The inter- and intra-columnar structure was investigated by small and wide angle X-ray scattering. The electronic and ionic transports were studied by temperature dependent photoconductivity and impedance spectroscopy, respectively. Besides a strong increase of the stability and the width of the columnar phases the presence of soft anions (iodide, thiocyanate, tetrafluoroborate) leads to an improved intra-columnar order. The hereby shortened stacking-distance of the triphenylene cores leads to a significant increase of the photoconductivity in the columnar mesophase. Furthermore, the ionic conductivity of the new materials was investigated on macroscopically aligned thin films. The existence of channels for fast cation transport formed by the stacked crown ether moieties in the centre of each column can be excluded. The cations are coordinated strongly and therefore contributing only little to the conductivity. The ionic conductivity is dominated by the anisotropic migration of the non-coordinated anions through the liquid, like side chains favouring the propagation parallel to the columns. Iodide migrates about 20 times faster than thiocyanate and 100 times faster than tetrafluoroborate.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2073-4352
91164575
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/9/2/74; https://doaj.org/toc/2073-4352
DOI: 10.3390/cryst9020074
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/633e393d91164575ba476d3b1d22b8fa
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.633e393d91164575ba476d3b1d22b8fa
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20734352
91164575
DOI:10.3390/cryst9020074