Metallomesogens, liquid crystal ionic liquids

Many applications have been reported for ionic liquid crystals. Among these, most important applications related to their intrinsic or induced luminescent properties [22, 53, 64, 71-79, 112, 114-116]. To this purpose, metallomesogens containing... 

Some applications in the biomedical field have been also envisaged for ionic liquid crystals. Transition metal complexes have potential antitumor activity, so metallomesogens could in principle be useful in the therapy for cancer [68],... 

Amphotropic behavior can be found for a large number of different chemical structures. Additional information is given in other chapters of this Handbook. Typical classes of amphotropic materials are for instance classical soaps (see lyotropics), transition metal soaps (see metallomesogens), viologens, quartemary amines and other ionic surfactants (see lyotropics), block copolymers (see polymer liquid crystals), cellulose derivatives (see cellulose liquid crystals) and partially fluorinated paraffines, diols, peptide surfactants, lecithins, lipids, alkylated sugars and inositols, naturally occurring glycosides and silanols, which are discussed in this chapter. 

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