Chiral, Magnetic, and Photosensitive Liquid Crystalline Nanocomposites Based on Multifunctional Nanoparticles and Achiral Liquid Crystals was written by Poryvai, Anna;Smahel, Michal;Svecova, Marie;Nemati, Ahlam;Shadpour, Sasan;Ulbrich, Pavel;Ogolla, Timothy;Liu, Jiao;Novotna, Vladimira;Veverka, Miroslav;Vejpravova, Jana;Hegmann, Torsten;Kohout, Michal. And the article was included in ACS Nano in 2022.Application of 2387-23-7 This article mentions the following:
Nanoparticles serving as a multifunctional and multiaddressable dopant to modify the properties of liquid crystalline matrixes are developed by combining cobalt ferrite nanocrystals with organic ligands featuring a robust photosensitive unit and a source of chirality from the natural pool. These nanoparticles provide a stable nanocomposite when dispersed in achiral liquid crystals, giving rise to chiral supramol. structures that can respond to UV-light illumination, and, at the same time, the formed nanocomposite possesses strong magnetic response. We report on a nanocomposite that shows three addnl. functionalities (chirality and responsiveness to UV light and magnetic field) upon the introduction of a single dopant into achiral liquid crystals. In the experiment, the researchers used many compounds, for example, 1,3-Dicyclohexylurea (cas: 2387-23-7Application of 2387-23-7).
1,3-Dicyclohexylurea (cas: 2387-23-7) belongs to amides. Because of the greater electronegativity of oxygen, the carbonyl (C=O) is a stronger dipole than the N–C dipole. The presence of a C=O dipole and, to a lesser extent a N–C dipole, allows amides to act as H-bond acceptors. Amides can be recrystallised from large quantities of water, ethanol, ethanol/ether, aqueous ethanol, chloroform/toluene, chloroform or acetic acid. The likely impurities are the parent acids or the alkyl esters from which they have been made. The former can be removed by thorough washing with aqueous ammonia followed by recrystallisation, whereas elimination of the latter is by trituration or recrystallisation from an organic solvent.Application of 2387-23-7
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