Liquid crystals

The aim of my work is the design and synthesis of novel symmetrical and unsymme-trical crown ether-based discotic liquid crystalline materials with varying number and kind of side chains. The thermotropic behavior and phase morphology will be studied by polarized light microscopy (POM), differential scanning calometry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) experiments. These materials are promising candidates for supra-molecular wires.