Molecular dynamics simulations of liquid-crystalline dendritic architectures

We report here a few examples of the self-organization behaviour of some novel materials based on liquid-crystalline dendritic architectures. The original design of the molecules imposes the use of all-atomic methods to model correctly every intra- and intermolecular effects. The selected materials...

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Autores principales: Bourgogne, C., Bury, I., Gehringer, L., Zelcer, A., Cukiernik, F., Terazzi, E., Donnio, B., Guillon, D., Massobrio M, Goyhenex C, Bulou H
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00758450_v795_n_p99_Bourgogne
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Sumario:We report here a few examples of the self-organization behaviour of some novel materials based on liquid-crystalline dendritic architectures. The original design of the molecules imposes the use of all-atomic methods to model correctly every intra- and intermolecular effects. The selected materials are octopus dendrimers with block anisotropic side-arms, segmented amphiphilic block codendrimers, multicore and star-shaped oligomers, and multi-functionalized manganese clusters. The molecular organization in lamellar or columnar phases occurs due to soft/rigid parts self-recognition, hydrogen-bonding networks or from the molecular shape intrinsically. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.