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    <title language="eng">Self-Assembly of Ionic Superdiscs in Nanopores</title>
    <abstract language="eng">Discotic ionic liquid crystals (DILCs) consist of self-assembled superdiscs of cations and anions that spontaneously stack in linear columns with high one-dimensional ionic and electronic charge mobility, making them prominent model systems for functional soft matter. Compared to classical nonionic discotic liquid crystals, many liquid crystalline structures with a combination of electronic and ionic conductivity have been reported, which are of interest for separation membranes, artificial ion/proton conducting membranes, and optoelectronics. Unfortunately, a homogeneous alignment of the DILCs on the macroscale is often not achievable, which significantly limits the applicability of DILCs. Infiltration into nanoporous solid scaffolds can, in principle, overcome this drawback. However, due to the experimental challenges to scrutinize liquid crystalline order in extreme spatial confinement, little is known about the structures of DILCs in nanopores. Here, we present temperaturedependent high-resolution optical birefringence measurement and 3D reciprocal space mapping based on synchrotron X-ray scattering to investigate the thermotropic phase behavior of dopamine-based ionic liquid crystals confined in cylindrical channels of 180 nm diameter in macroscopic anodic aluminum oxide membranes. As a function of the membranes’ hydrophilicity and thus the molecular anchoring to the pore walls (edge-on or face-on) and the variation of the hydrophilic−hydrophobic balance between the aromatic cores and the alkyl side chain motifs of the superdiscs by tailored chemical synthesis, we find a particularly rich phase behavior, which is not present in the bulk state. It is governed by a complex interplay of liquid crystalline elastic energies (bending and splay deformations), polar interactions, and pure geometric confinement and includes textural transitions between radial and axial alignment of the columns with respect to the long nanochannel axis. Furthermore, confinement-induced continuous order formation is observed in contrast to discontinuous first-order phase transitions, which can be quantitatively described by Landau-de Gennes free energy models for liquid crystalline order transitions in confinement. Our observations suggest that the infiltration of DILCs into nanoporous solids allows tailoring their nanoscale texture and ion channel formation and thus their electrical and optical functionalities over an even wider range than in the bulk state in a homogeneous manner on the centimeter scale as controlled by the monolithic nanoporous scaffolds.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">ACS Nano</parentTitle>
    <identifier type="doi">10.1021/acsnano.4c01062</identifier>
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    <identifier type="issn">1936-0851</identifier>
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    <licence>Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International</licence>
    <author>Z. Li</author>
    <author>A. Raab</author>
    <author>Mohamed Aejaz Kolmangadi</author>
    <author>M. Busch</author>
    <author>M. Grunwald</author>
    <author>F. Demel</author>
    <author>F. Bertram</author>
    <author>A. V. Kityk</author>
    <author>Andreas Schönhals</author>
    <author>S. Laschat</author>
    <author>P. Huber</author>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Ionic Liquid Crystals</value>
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    <subject>
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      <value>Nanopropous materials</value>
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    <subject>
      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Landau de-Gennes analysis</value>
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      <value>X-ray scattering</value>
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      <language>eng</language>
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      <value>Optical birefringence</value>
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    <collection role="institutes" number="">6 Materialchemie</collection>
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    <title language="eng">Microscopic molecular mobility of high-performance polymers of intrinsic microporosity revealed by neutron scattering – bend fluctuations and signature of methyl group rotation</title>
    <abstract language="eng">Polymers of intrinsic microporosity exhibit a combination of high gas permeability and reasonable permselectivity, which makes them attractive candidates for gas separation membrane materials. The diffusional selective gas transport properties are connected to the molecular mobility of these polymers in the condensed state. Incoherent quasielastic neutron scattering was carried out on two polymers of intrinsic microporosity, PIM-EA-TB(CH3) and its demethylated counterpart PIM-EA-TB(H2), which have high Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area values of 1030 m2 g-1 and 836 m2 g-1, respectively. As these two polymers only differ in the presence of two methyl groups at the ethanoanthracene unit, the effect of methyl group rotation can be investigated solely. To cover a broad dynamic range, neutron time-of-flight was combined with neutron backscattering. The demethylated PIM-EA-TB(H2) exhibits a relaxation process with a weak intensity at short times. As the backbone is rigid and stiff this process was assigned to bendand-flex fluctuations. This process was also observed for the PIM-EA-TB(CH3). A further relaxation process is found for PIM-EA-TB(CH3), which is the methyl group rotation. It was analyzed by a jump-diffusion in a three-fold potential considering also the fact that only a fraction of the present hydrogens in PIM-EATB(CH3) participate in the methyl group rotation. This analysis can quantitatively describe the q dependence of the elastic incoherent structure factor. Furthermore, a relaxation time for the methyl group rotation can be extracted. A high activation energy of 35 kJ mol-1 was deduced. This high activation energy evidences a strong hindrance of the methyl group rotation in the bridged PIM-EA-TB(CH3) structure.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">Soft Matter</parentTitle>
    <identifier type="doi">10.1039/d4sm00520a</identifier>
    <identifier type="urn">urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-604114</identifier>
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    <author>R. Zorn</author>
    <author>Paulina Szymoniak</author>
    <author>Mohamed Aejaz Kolmangadi</author>
    <author>R. Malpass-Evans</author>
    <author>N. McKeown</author>
    <author>N. Jalarvo</author>
    <author>M. Tyagi</author>
    <author>Martin Böhning</author>
    <author>Andreas Schönhals</author>
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      <value>Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity</value>
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      <value>Neutron Scattering</value>
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