“…In fact, bringing the discotic PBI-based LCs more closely to practical applications requires excellent mesomorphic and emission properties. Up to now, although a plenty of discotic PBI-based LCs were achieved using various mesomorphic groups such as triphenylene [26][27][28][29][30], cholesterol [31,32], siloxane [33], dendritic peptides [34], cyclotetrasiloxane [35], oligosiloxane [36], polyhedral oligosilsesquioxane (POSS) [37], and gallic acid derivatives [38][39][40][41][42], most of their uorescence emission were regulated and managed by substituted groups through the intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) and/or π-extended conjugation system. While hardly affecting the alteration of emission peak, the substituents at the N-imide positions can weaken the uorescence because of the photoinduced electron transfer (PET) [22], which limit the practical application of the uorescent PBI-based LCs in photoelectronic and electroluminescent devices.…”