Magnetically Manipulable Ionic Liquid Crystals Incorporating Neutral Radicals

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover are the collaborating groups of Dr. Yoshiaki Uchida from Osaka University, Japan, Prof. Rui Tamura and Prof. Masahito Sugiyama from Kyoto University, Japan and Dr. Dmitrii G. Mazhukin from Novosibirsk State University, Russia. The cover picture depicts a contrast between localized spins and conductive ions in the newly‐synthesized ionic liquid crystalline (ILC) nitroxide radicals. The ILC droplet of the new compounds is magnetically manipulable. More information can be found in the Full Paper by Yoshiaki Uchida, Rui Tamura, and co‐workers.

Molecular clustering behaviour in the cybotactic nematic phase of a spin-labelled liquid crystal

“…We focused on the specific substituents like hydroxy, ionic and fluorinated groups needed to induce the non-covalent interactions for the cybotactic cluster formation. We have already reported hydrogen-bonded LC-NRs, 19,20 ionic LC-NRs 21 and terminal fluorinated LC-NRs containing a mono-, di-or trifluorobenzene group. 22 However, they do not exhibit N cyb phases originating from fluorination.…”