Masafumi Yoshio

New fan-shaped ionic liquids forming columnar liquid crystalline phases have been prepared to obtain one-dimensional ion-transporting materials. The ionic liquids consist of two incompatible parts: an imidazolium-based ionic part as an ion-conducting part and tris(alkyloxy)phenyl parts as insulating parts. Two compounds having octyl and dodecyl chains have been synthesized. Self-assembly of these materials leads to the formation of thermotropic hexagonal columnar liquid crystalline states at roo

We have prepared two types of one-dimensional ion-conductive polymer films containing ion nanochannels that are both perpendicular and parallel to the film surface. These films have been obtained by photopolymerization of aligned columnar liquid crystals of a fan-shaped imidazolium salt having acrylate groups at the periphery. In the columnar structure, the ionic part self-assembles into the inner part of the column. The column is oriented macroscopically in two directions by different methods:

Self-organized anisotropic ion-conductive materials can be formed by the interactions between a conventional ionic liquid and hydroxyl-terminated mesogenic compounds. Anisotropic ionic conductivities could be measured for samples that formed oriented monodomains in the measurement cell. The Figure shows the ionic liquid and mesogenic compound in the cells used for these measurements. (See also cover)

Abstract Two series of 1-methyl-3-[3,4,5-tris(alkyloxy)benzyl]imidazolium salts (1(n/X−); n=8, 12, 16, and 18) and 1,2-dimethyl-3-[3,4,5-tris(dodecyloxy)benzyl]imidazolium salts (2(12/X−)) containing anions (X−), such as tetrafluoroborate, hexafluorophosphate, trifluoromethylsulfonate, and bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, have been synthesized. The thermal properties of these salts were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry, polarizing optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. Th

Supramolecular self-assembly of 24 forklike mesogenic ligands and 12 transition metal ions led to the formation of giant spherical coordination complexes that exhibit liquid-crystalline (LC) phases. Self-healing LC supramolecular gels were also obtained through the introduction of these LC nanostructured supramolecular giant spherical complexes into dynamic covalent networks formed by cross-linkers and bifunctional polymers. The giant spherical structures of the Pd^II complexes with 72

A discotic liquid-crystalline (LC) material, consisting of a planarized triphenylborane mesogen, was synthesized. X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed that this compound forms a hexagonal columnar LC phase with an interfacial distance of 3.57 Å between the discs. At ambient temperature, this boron-centered discotic liquid crystal exhibited ambipolar carrier transport properties with electron and hole mobility values of approximately 10(-3) and 3×10(-5) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1), respectively.

3D and 1D lithium ion transport is achieved along nanostructured ionic pathways built through co-assembly of a zwitterionic liquid crystal, a lithium salt and propylene carbonate.

Aligned fibrous aggregates of amide compounds having laterally fluorinated aromatic mesogens have been successfully obtained by the application of the alternating current electric field (1.0 V/microm, 1 kHz) in dodecylbenzene. In contrast, randomly entangled fibers are formed in the solvent without electric fields. For the analogous compounds without fluorine substituent, no aligned fibrous aggregates have been obtained under the electric fields. The electric field alignment of the fibers should

Abstract Amphiphilic ionic liquid derivatives form self-organized lamellar liquid crystals with room temperature ionic liquids. The ionic conductivities along the smectic layers have been obtained for the samples aligned in the cells with electrodes. The highest value is 4.3×10-2 S cm-1 at 139 °C.

Anisotropic ion-conductive materials have been prepared by self-assembly of a conventional ionic liquid and a hydroxyl-terminated liquid crystal. These assemblies form phase-segregated layered structures on the nanometer scale. Anisotropic ionic conductivities along the direction parallel and perpendicular to the layer have been successfully measured for the sample forming oriented monodomains. The ionic conductivity parallel to the layer (σi//) is higher than that perpendicular to the layer (σi

The self-assembly of X-shaped pyrene–oligothiophene conjugated molecules results in the formation of columnar liquid-crystalline structures that exhibit hole carrier transport properties and shear-induced phase transition accompanied by the luminescent colour change.

Bisphenylsulfone-based hexacatenal molecules self-assemble to form thermotropic columnar liquid-crystalline phases through the dipole–dipole interactions of sulfonyl groups and nanosegregation of aliphatic and aromatic moieties. The vertical alignment of the columns has been achieved by applying electric fields to the samples sandwiched between ITO substrates. In addition, organogels are obtained by the formation of the self-assembled fibrous aggregates of a sulfone derivative in organic solvent

We here report the supramolecular self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded motifs for the development of nanostructured materials that exhibit dynamic functions such as stimuli-responsive properties and molecular recognition behaviour. We have designed and synthesised new thermotropic bicontinuous and columnar liquid-crystalline (LC) guanine-oligothiophene conjugates tethered with lipophilic chains, which exhibit ionic, electronic and photoluminescence properties. Their potassium salt complexes self-ass

Aligned self-assembled fibers have been obtained for a phenylbithiophene derivative with a laterally fluorinated phenylene group by the application of electric fields. These fibrous aggregates exhibit photoconductive properties due to the stacking of the π-conjugated moiety. In contrast, a phenylbithiophene derivative without fluoro substituents forms unaligned fibers under electric fields. The dielectric anisotropy of the fluorinated molecule plays a key role in the alignment of photoconductive