Nanorods: Discotic Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Gold Nanorods: 2- and 3D Self-Assembly and Macroscopic Alignment as well as Increased Charge Carrier Mobility in Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystal Hosts Affected by Molecular Packing and π-π Interactions (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2015)

• Published in: Advanced functional materials Vol. 25; no. 8; p. 1161
• Main Authors: Feng, Xiang, Sosa-Vargas, Lydia, Umadevi, S., Mori, Taizo, Shimizu, Yo, Hegmann, Torsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2015
• Subjects: alignment; assembly; gold nanorods
• ISSN: 1616-301X; 1616-3028
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201570051

On page 1180, T. Hegmann and team show that gold nanorods decorated with discotic liquid crystals self‐assemble into nanorod ribbons both in thin films on TEM grids as well as in the bulk. These nanorods can be aligned with over 75% efficiency based on the calculated order parameter and enhance the charge carrier mobility in the parent discotic liquid crystal host. The image shows the texture of the hexagonal columnar liquid crystal host H6TP doped with the functionalized gold nanorods at 1% by weight.