Well-Organized Columnar Superlattices via Positive Coupling between Polymer Backbone and Discotic Side Groups
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- 作者：Bin Mu ; Shi Pan ; Huafeng Bian ; Bin Wu ; Jianglin Fang ; Dongzhong Chen
- 刊名：Macromolecules
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：October 13, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：48
- 期：19
- 页码：6768-6780
- 全文大小：798K
- ISSN：1520-5835
文摘
Very little is known about some fundamental issues such as the spacer length influence and molecular weight (MW) effect of discotic liquid crystalline polymers (DLCPs), despite the elucidation of such aspects are of crucial importance for their structure tuning and device performance. Here in this article, a systematic comparative study has been conducted to investigate the MW effect and especially gain a deeper insight into the spacer length influence of side-chain DLCPs based on a homologous series of well-defined discotic liquid crystalline polyacrylates with triphenylene (TP) side groups of variant spacer lengths. The series DLCPs of shorter spacers display various well-organized columnar superlattices based on multicolumn bundles organization with 鈥渃oordination number鈥?from two to six through individual discogens or discrete columnar stack (DCS)-based intracolumnar stacking modes. It is disclosed for the first time that the positive coupling effect (PCE) prevails in side-chain DLCPs, and proper coupling between discotic side groups and polymer backbone is desirable and required for achieving well-organized ordered columnar mesophases, in striking contrast with the renowned classical spacer decoupling principle directing the fruitful exploration of their side-chain calamitic counterparts for several decades. These findings are inspiring for in-depth understanding of self-assembly of aromatic interactions involved complex functional chemical and biological systems and especially opening an avenue for rational design and synthesis of well-controlled side-chain DLCPs for low-cost solution processable optoelectronic device applications.