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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Liquid Crystalline Copolymers Containing Sulfonic and Light-Responsive Groups: From Molecular Design to Conductivity.

Sakinah Mohd Alauddin, Nurul Fadhilah Kamalul Aripin, Thamil Selvi Velayutham, Alfonso Martinez-Felipe

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Sakinah Mohd AlauddinFaculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Nurul Fadhilah Kamalul AripinFaculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0001-8383-3304
Thamil Selvi VelayuthamFundamental and Frontier Sciences in Nanostructure Self-Assembly Center, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
Alfonso Martinez-FelipeChemical and Materials Engineering Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1446-8398

Funding

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Incentive Grant RIG008586Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education 600-IRMI/FRGS 5/3 (374/2019)Royal Academy of Engineering NRCPA516/4/61Royal Society Research Grant RGS\R1\201397Universiti Malaya RP038B-17AFRUniversity of Aberdeen SF10192
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Abstract

In the search for novel smart multifunctional liquid crystalline materials, we report the synthesis, thermal and structural characterisation, and the conductivity, of a set of new block and statistical copolymers, containing light-responsive mesogenic groups (MeOAzB), polar sulfonic acids (AMPS), and methyl(methacrylate) groups (MMA). By using a cascade of reversible addition-fragmentation chain polymerisations, RAFT, we have tailored different side-chain polymeric structures by controlling monomer composition (MeOAzB/AMPS/MMA) and configuration. We have yielded simultaneous liquid crystalline behaviour and appreciable conductivity in polymers with low concentrations of polar acid groups, by the formation of smectic phases in narrow aggregates. The light-responsiveness of the polymers, via reversible

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Electric ConductivityElectrolytesLiquid CrystalsMolecular StructurePolymersSulfonic AcidsThermodynamicsElectrolytesPolymersSulfonic Acidsazobenzenesionic conductivitylight-responsive materialsliquid crystalline polymerspolymer electrolytes

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