Intermolecular interactions, liquid crystal ionic

Avery recent perspective on ionicity particularly in protic ionic liquids [821], discusses the difficulty, highlighted in this review, of inferring the nature of intermolecular interactions (in both solid and liquid) sirt5)ly on the basis of stoichiometry. While the paper considers solvates and co-crystals, as well as ionic liquids, its conclusion that predictions of property (whether ionicity or melting point) from composition will generally be uncertain is one that should be seen as generally valid. 

Furthermore, we succeeded in the tmiform alignment between the ITO electrodes and gold comb electrodes in this two-component system liquid crystal and found that the ion conductivity parallel to the smectic layer structure is about 3,000 times higher than in the perpendicular direction. We could also easily adjust the ionic conductivity and the phase transition temperature by changing the composition mixture [172]. It is a great advantage to use such mixtures that form assembled structures by non-covalent intermolecular interactions. 

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