| Abstract: | 1 Results Liquid crystalline dendrimers and structurally related multipodes are supermolecules consisting of an amorphous hyper-branched core at the periphery of which are attached mesogenic groups capable of self-organization.Two opposite tendencies compete in these systems: the internal dendrimer tends to adopt a pseudo-spherical architecture that has a disordering influence on the packing of the mesogenic parts whose tend to self-organize into partially ordered structures.These kinds of systems show ... |
