Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state of matter 125 years ago, this field has
developed into a scientific area with many facets. This Review presents recent …

1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

Since the end of the 19th century when Friedrich Reinitzer, Otto Lehmann, and others
introduced the liquidcrystalline state of matter into science, the exact connection between …

An overview on the recent developments in the field of liquid crystalline bent-core molecules
(so-called banana liquid crystals) is given. After some basic issues, dealing with general …

Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-
organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional …

Many discoid dyes self-assemble into columnar liquid-crystalline (LC) phases with packing
arrangements that are undesired for photonic applications due to H-type exciton coupling …

A concept for highly ordered solid-state structures with bright fluorescence is proposed:
liquid crystals based on tetraethynylpyrene chromophores, where the rigid core is …

Non-covalent arene–fluoroarene interactions have been increasingly exploited to create
complex, soft and/or rigid supramolecular assemblies and more recently to design liquid …

π-Extended pyrene compounds possess remarkable luminescent and semiconducting
properties and are being intensively investigated as electroluminescent materials for …

N‐Alkyl‐N‐methylpyrrolidinium cations have been used for the design of ionic liquid
crystals, including a new type of uranium‐containing metallomesogen. Pyrrolidinium salts …