Mesogenic systems

Spontaneous Deracemization in Mesogenic Systems 3.1 Historical View... 

Such mesogenic systems represent a class by themselves often referred to as dendromesogens. The dendritic concept results from the self-organization of these dendromesogens into various liquid crystalline morphologies. Cylindrical supramolecular dendrimers are generally obtained by the self-assembly... 

While the phase structures of the pure mesogens employed in studies of this type may be well-characterized, it is always necessary to determine the effects of solute incorporation on bulk medium structure. The effects of the medium on solute reactivity are microscopic ones, and can only be completely understood (or at least meaningfully interpreted) when the structure of the bulk solute/mesogen system - i.e. the macroscopic solvation behavior - is known. 

The liquid-crystalline state has been known for more than a century, as the so-called mesophase. It has a finite viscosity and at the same time anisotropic physical properties. Mesogenic systems do not lose all their long-range order suddenly above their melting points instead, as their temperature is increased, the positional long-... 

GB particles are quite realistic models for small molecules, but once linked together with specific bonded interactions similar to those in (3), they can also be used as building blocks of more complex systems, such as polymers [73-77], LC dendrimers [78], and elastomers [79], as well as covalently bonded fullerene-mesogen systems [41, 80] or end-capped oligomers [81]. Among these studies, a few attempts have also been made to use the GB potential as a basis for CG-like parameterization, using atomistic simulations as the reference potential [68,76,81]. 

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