Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens
ABSTRACT Materials capable of tunable optical absorption and fluorescence properties in response to multiple external stimuli, while providing a readable signal, have garnered significant scientific interest. Such materials hold promise for applications in wearable electronics, anticounterfeiting te...
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| author | Giuseppina Anna Corrente Agostina Lina Capodilupo Gianluca Accorsi Francesca Scarpelli Alessandra Crispini Amerigo Beneduci |
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| description | ABSTRACT Materials capable of tunable optical absorption and fluorescence properties in response to multiple external stimuli, while providing a readable signal, have garnered significant scientific interest. Such materials hold promise for applications in wearable electronics, anticounterfeiting technologies, self‐powered light sources and displays, human–machine interfaces, and intelligent sensing systems. A highly effective approach to achieving multi‐stimuli optical responsiveness is to integrate various functionalities into a single structure, such as reversible electrochemistry, ion and electronic charge transport, photoluminescence, and supramolecular organization (e.g., mesomorphism). Here, we introduce a new class of thermotropic smectic ionic liquid crystals, composed of the bistriflimide salts of π‐conjugated fluorenoviologen dications. The dications feature a central fluorene core functionalized in position 2,7 with two pyridine moieties, whose nitrogen atoms are alkylated with promesogenic alkyl chains of varying lengths. In their bulk liquid crystalline phases, these materials exhibit ON/OFF electrofluorochromism (under UV photoexcitation), with voltage‐triggered fluorescence quenching and a shift from yellow to dark electrochromism. Additionally, they display thermofluorochromism, showing a striking fluorescence color change from green to blue on going from the crystalline solid phase at room temperature to the liquid crystalline phases at high temperatures. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-fa92ca8667c34d23862eb506ccafb1d52025-08-20T03:32:20ZengWileySmartMat2688-819X2025-06-0163n/an/a10.1002/smm2.70023Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The FluorenoviologensGiuseppina Anna Corrente0Agostina Lina Capodilupo1Gianluca Accorsi2Francesca Scarpelli3Alessandra Crispini4Amerigo Beneduci5Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies University of Calabria Arcavacata di Rende Calabria ItalyCNR‐Nanotec Institute of Nanotechnology, Campus Ecoteckne Lecce ItalyCNR‐Nanotec Institute of Nanotechnology, Campus Ecoteckne Lecce ItalyDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies University of Calabria Arcavacata di Rende Calabria ItalyDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies University of Calabria Arcavacata di Rende Calabria ItalyDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies University of Calabria Arcavacata di Rende Calabria ItalyABSTRACT Materials capable of tunable optical absorption and fluorescence properties in response to multiple external stimuli, while providing a readable signal, have garnered significant scientific interest. Such materials hold promise for applications in wearable electronics, anticounterfeiting technologies, self‐powered light sources and displays, human–machine interfaces, and intelligent sensing systems. A highly effective approach to achieving multi‐stimuli optical responsiveness is to integrate various functionalities into a single structure, such as reversible electrochemistry, ion and electronic charge transport, photoluminescence, and supramolecular organization (e.g., mesomorphism). Here, we introduce a new class of thermotropic smectic ionic liquid crystals, composed of the bistriflimide salts of π‐conjugated fluorenoviologen dications. The dications feature a central fluorene core functionalized in position 2,7 with two pyridine moieties, whose nitrogen atoms are alkylated with promesogenic alkyl chains of varying lengths. In their bulk liquid crystalline phases, these materials exhibit ON/OFF electrofluorochromism (under UV photoexcitation), with voltage‐triggered fluorescence quenching and a shift from yellow to dark electrochromism. Additionally, they display thermofluorochromism, showing a striking fluorescence color change from green to blue on going from the crystalline solid phase at room temperature to the liquid crystalline phases at high temperatures.https://doi.org/10.1002/smm2.70023electrochromismelectrofluorochromismionic liquid crystalssmart materialsstimuli‐responsivethermofluorochromism |
| spellingShingle | Giuseppina Anna Corrente Agostina Lina Capodilupo Gianluca Accorsi Francesca Scarpelli Alessandra Crispini Amerigo Beneduci Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens SmartMat electrochromism electrofluorochromism ionic liquid crystals smart materials stimuli‐responsive thermofluorochromism |
| title | Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens |
| title_full | Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens |
| title_fullStr | Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens |
| title_short | Multi‐Stimuli Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals: The Fluorenoviologens |
| title_sort | multi stimuli responsive ionic liquid crystals the fluorenoviologens |
| topic | electrochromism electrofluorochromism ionic liquid crystals smart materials stimuli‐responsive thermofluorochromism |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/smm2.70023 |
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