Abstract
The term “Ionic Liquid Crystals” (ILCs) clearly results from the blending of the well-known “Ionic Liquids” (ILs) and “Liquid Crystals” (LCs) names of the corresponding materials [...]
Highlights
Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals were first officially reported some 50 years later [5], compared to the “parent” compounds, but they have been known since ancient times, since soaps, that is metal alkanoates, exhibit ionic liquid crystal phases
Most of the ILC compounds known today are composed by the same type of cations and anions usually found in ILs; because of the presence of relatively long carbon chains, micro-segregation leads to the formation of Liquid Crystals” (LCs) phases, almost invariably of smectic type, that is layered
These, depend on the interplay of a number of steric, van der Waals, H-bonding, and electrostatic interactions and their modeling is an arduous task. This Special Issue on Ionic Liquid Crystals aims at gathering together some of the specialists working with ILCs, to shed light on the properties and behavior of ILCs
Summary
Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals were first officially reported some 50 years later [5], compared to the “parent” compounds, but they have been known since ancient times, since soaps, that is metal alkanoates, exhibit ionic liquid crystal phases. ILCs can be viewed as ILs that, at some intermediate temperature between the isotropic liquid and the crystal phase, exhibit a liquid-crystalline (LC) mesophase.
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