D. S. Shankar Rao

TL;DR: These systems present a unique opportunity to develop interesting nanostructured polymeric materials with precise control over both the domain size and morphology; importantly, the domain sizes are far smaller than those typically observed in traditional block copolymers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of nonisc-like ZnII Schiff base complexes of the type [Zn (4-CnH2n+1O)2 salophen], n = 14, 16, 18, salophen = N,N′-phenylenebis(salicylideneiminato), have been prepared and their mesogenic, photophysical properties investigated.

TL;DR: The first achiral bent core banana-shaped mesogen consisting of a thermally and hydrolytically stable salicylaldimine (2-hydroxybenzylideneamine) mesogenic segment has been synthesized and evaluated for its liquid crystalline behavior as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A new class of N-annulated perylene tetraesters and their N-alkylated derivatives has been synthesized and shows good homeotropic alignment with few defects, suggesting that these materials may have promising applications in organic electronics.

TL;DR: Density functional theory computation carried out on a representative complex using a GAUSSIAN 09 program at the B3LYP level suggested a distorted square planar geometry and the results of a time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) spectral correlative study showed the electronic properties of the complex molecule to be in compliance with the spectral data.