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Record W4408322818 · doi:10.1021/jacs.4c17729

Uniform Single-Domain Liquid Crystalline Hexagonal Rods by Synchronized Polymerization and Self-Assembly Using Disc-Shaped Monomers

2025· article· en· W4408322818 on OpenAlexaff
Minchao Li, Yuanxin Ma, Jing Li, Xiaoli Zhang, Zihao Xu, An‐Chang Shi, Bing Liu

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicLiquid Crystal Research Advancements
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsChemistryRodMonomerHexagonal crystal systemPolymerizationSelf-assemblyChemical engineeringPolymer chemistryLiquid crystallineDomain (mathematical analysis)CrystallographyLiquid crystalPolymerOrganic chemistryOptics

Abstract

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The fabrication of nanostructures from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is highly attractive owing to their unique optical, electrical, and magnetic properties. However, the creation of uniform and well-defined PAH nanostructures by self-assembly still remains a significant challenge. Herein, we report that highly uniform hexagonal rods can be obtained from triphenylene (TP)-derived monomers by synchronized polymerization and self-assembly (SPSA). These rods have a single-domain columnar liquid crystalline structure in which columns formed from stacked TPs are along the long axis of the rods. The length/diameter ratios of the rods can be tuned over a wide range. Key factors to achieve SPSA of PAHs were analyzed, and the formation mechanism was clarified. In particular, it is observed that successful SPSA occurs below an upper critical temperature, which could be attributed to insufficient microphase separation between the side chains and the main chains and should be a general principle for SPSA. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the columnar stacking of TP units significantly promotes the intersystem crossing of the singlet excited state to the triplet excited state, resulting in simultaneous fluorescence and phosphorescence emission at room temperature. This work may be extended to a wide range of PAHs to regulate their self-assembly and light emission properties.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.002

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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