An odd couple: Photoluminescent liquid crystals based on metal clusters
Friday, April 30, 2010 - 06:01
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Combine liquid crystals (mesogens) and metal clusters and you get clustomesogens -- a new class of compounds, the first examples of which have now been produced by scientists at the Universities of Rennes (France) and Bucharest (Rumania). As the team headed by Yann Molard and Stephane Cordier reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie, when irradiated, the material glows intensely in the red and infrared range.