Coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing poly(vinylpyrrolidone) microfibres

• Eva Enz,
• Ute Baumeister and
• Jan Lagerwall

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 58, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.58

• Eva Enz Ute Baumeister Jan Lagerwall Institute of Chemistry – Physical Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Von-Danckelmann-Platz 4, 06120 Halle, Germany 10.3762/bjoc.5.58 Abstract With the relatively new technique of coaxial electrospinning, composite fibres of poly

• unexpected when considering the viscosity anisotropy of the liquid crystal kept in its smectic phase during electrospinning. Keywords: coaxial electrospinning; composite material; core-sheath fibres; liquid crystal; smectic phase; Introduction Electrospinning is a versatile process for producing nano- and

• PVP as sheath and the liquid crystal 4-cyano-4′-octylbiphenyl (8CB) as core produced by coaxial electrospinning. The latter LC exhibits a smectic phase (phase sequence: cryst. 20.5 SmA 32.0 N 39.2 iso.) in contrast to the LC used in our previous work, which formed only a nematic liquid crystal phase

Progress in liquid crystal chemistry

• Sabine Laschat

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 48, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.48

• diverse topics such as phthalocyanine-fullerene hybrid materials for photovoltaic devices, functional metallomesogens, coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing microfibers, banana-discotic hybrid systems, ionic liquid crystals, relations between molecular length distribution and formation of