Homeotropic Alignment and Selective Adsorption of Nanoporous Polymer Film Polymerized from Hydrogen-bonded Liquid Crystal

An-Qi Xiao; Xiao-Lin Lyu; Hong-Bing Pan; Zhe-Hao Tang; Wei Zhang; Zhi-Hao Shen; Xing-He Fan

doi:10.1007/s10118-020-2431-9

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Homeotropic Alignment and Selective Adsorption of Nanoporous Polymer Film Polymerized from Hydrogen-bonded Liquid Crystal

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- Homeotropic Alignment and Selective Adsorption of Nanoporous Polymer Film Polymerized from Hydrogen-bonded Liquid Crystal
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 38, Issue 11, Pages: 1185-1191(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Author bio：
  
  zshen@pku.edu.cn (Z.H.S.)
  fanxh@pku.edu.cn (X.H.F.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-020-2431-9
  CLC：
- Received：03 March 2020，
  
  Revised：2020-3-17，
  
  Accepted：20 March 2020，
  
  Online First：19 June 2020，
  
  Published：14 August 2020
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Xiao, A. Q.; Lyu, X. L.; Pan, H. B.; Tang, Z. H.; Zhang, W.; Shen, Z. H.; Fan, X. H. Homeotropic alignment and selective adsorption of nanoporous polymer film polymerized from hydrogen-bonded liquid crystal. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1185–1191

An-Qi Xiao, Xiao-Lin Lyu, Hong-Bing Pan, et al. Homeotropic Alignment and Selective Adsorption of Nanoporous Polymer Film Polymerized from Hydrogen-bonded Liquid Crystal[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(11): 1185-1191.
Xiao, A. Q.; Lyu, X. L.; Pan, H. B.; Tang, Z. H.; Zhang, W.; Shen, Z. H.; Fan, X. H. Homeotropic alignment and selective adsorption of nanoporous polymer film polymerized from hydrogen-bonded liquid crystal. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1185–1191 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2431-9.

An-Qi Xiao, Xiao-Lin Lyu, Hong-Bing Pan, et al. Homeotropic Alignment and Selective Adsorption of Nanoporous Polymer Film Polymerized from Hydrogen-bonded Liquid Crystal[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(11): 1185-1191. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2431-9.

摘要

Abstract

Nanoporous polymer film with a hexagonal columnar (Col

) structure was fabricated by templated hydrogen-bonding discotic liquid crystals containing methacrylate functional group. The supramolecular hydrogen-bonded complex T3Ph-L is composed of a 1

5-tris(1

-benzo[

]imidazol-2-yl)benzene (T3Ph) core molecule as the hydrogen-bonding acceptor and 3

5-tris((11-(methacryloyloxy)undecyl)oxy)benzoic acid (L) peripheral molecules as donors. And the Col

structure is always retained after self-assembly

photo-crosslinking

and removal of the template T3Ph. The nanoporous polymer film can retain the Col

phase even under the dry condition

which indicates more possibilities for practical applications. After chemical modification of the inner wall of the nanopores

the nanoporous polymer film with pores of about 1 nm selectively adsorbs ionic dyes

and the adsorption process is spontaneous and exothermic in nature. Homeotropic alignment can be obtained when the blend complex was sandwiched between two modified glasses after annealing by slow cooling

which shows that the nanoporous polymer film has potential in applications such as nanofiltration.

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