Influences of central units and terminal chains on the banana-shaped liquid crystals

TX Ting, MS Sarjadi, ML Rahman - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Azo-functionalized materials are one of the appealing groups of the functionalized materials
owing to their photoswitching behaviour and have been explored for various potential …

Chemical and physical aspects of recent bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting chiral and achiral mesophases

S Kaur, V Punjani, N Yadav, A Barthakur, A Baghla… - Liquid …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bent-core liquid crystals (BLCs) are a class of thermotropic LCs that exhibit chiral and polar
superstructures in achiral molecules. Progress in design and synthesis of novel bent-core …

Enhancing solar thermal storage properties of azobenzenes with conductive polymer: Electropolymerization of carbazole containing photoactive cyanoazobenzene …

S Sert, R Ayranci, GK Çılgı, M Ak - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Solar thermal fuels (STFs) have recently drawn attention as a promising strategy for
utilization of solar energy that is a clean and renewable source. Especially solid state solar …

Photoresponsive conductive polymer network based on azobenzene bridging crosslinked polycarbazole for boosting solar thermal storage

S Sert, R Ayranci, GK Çılgı, M Ak - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2024 - Elsevier
Azobenzene is one of the most extensively researched multifunctional chromophores and
azobenzene including materials has a wide variety of applications due to their …

Influence of linking units on the photo responsive studies of azobenzene liquid Crystals: Application in optical storage devices

S Shruthi, M Smahel, M Kohout, G Shanker… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report on the photoisomerization process of three series of photosensitive
bent-core liquid crystals with a lateral chlorine atom in the central resorcinol core and …

Palladium-mediated base-free and solvent-free synthesis of aromatic azo compounds from anilines catalyzed by copper acetate

B Jiang, YY Du, GZ Han - Green Processing and Synthesis, 2022 - degruyter.com
Herein, we report a new one-step direct synthesis of aromatic azo compounds from anilines
under mild conditions. With the catalysis of copper acetate mediated by palladium salt, rapid …

Co–N x catalyst: an effective catalyst for the transformation of nitro compounds into azo compounds

R Huang, Y Wang, XX Liu, P Zhou, S **… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The selective hydrogenation of nitro compounds into their corresponding azo compounds is
challenging in organic synthesis. In this study, we have developed a facile and efficient …

Evaluation of photoswitching properties for hockey stick-shaped mesogens bearing azo benzene moieties

BN Sunil, M Monika, G Shanker, G Hegde… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this paper, we report the photoresponsive behavior of hockey stick-shaped mesogens
bearing azo wing with different terminal alkoxy chains at one terminal end. Except for the …