Porphyrin octaesters: new discotic liquid crystals

1 January 1987

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 15,p. 1134-1135
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39870001134

Abstract

Six liquid crystalline prophyrins are described which exhibit discotic mesophases over a broad temperature range before melting to stable, low viscosity, isotropic liquids suitable for capillary filling into photovoltaic cells.

Keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL