The conformation of a mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymer (MJLCP) chain can be a supramolecular rod or sheet. Therefore
MJLCPs can serve as supramolecular mesogens to form various liquid crystalline (LC) phases
such as hexagonal columnar
columnar nematic
hexatic columnar nematic
and smectic phases. By introducing nanobuilding blocks such as one-dimensional biphenyl
two-dimensional triphenylene and three-dimensional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) into MJLCPs
the resultant polymers can self-assemble into hierarchical structures on the sub-10 nm and close-to-1 nm length scales
as proven by a combination of experimental techniques including differential scanning calorimetry
polarized light microscopy
wide-angle and small-angle X-ray scattering
and transmission electron microscopy. In general
polymers form hierarchical structures at low temperatures. With increasing temperature
the ordered structure of the nanobuilding blocks in the side chain becomes disordered first. When the temperature is further elevated
the nano-sized LC phase of the polymer as a whole will transform to another structure or become isotropic. For some polymers
a re-entrant isotropic phase exists at intermediate temperatures. Because the hierarchical structures of these polymers have the advantages of controllable sizes and monodispersity and LC polymers are capable of being aligned by external fields and forming large-scale ordered domains
such polymers have wide potential applications in organic opto-electronics
nanoporous membranes
nanolithography
and so on. This paper reviews research works on the design
synthesis
and hierarchical self-assembly of MJLCP-based homopolymers containing biphenyl
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