Issue 14, 2006
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Chemical Communications

Functional liquid crystal films selectively recognize amine vapours and simultaneously change their colour

Nicole Kirchner,a   Linda Zedler,a   Thomas G. Mayerhöfera  and  Gerhard J. Mohr*a  

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E-mail: gerhard.mohr@uni-jena.de
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Abstract

During recent years, cholesteric liquid crystals have found only a few applications, one of them being temperature detection; in this study, however, we intend to show that the combination of cholesteric liquid crystals and molecules with a trifluoroacetyl function can be applied to optically detect amine vapours.

Graphical abstract: Functional liquid crystal films selectively recognize amine vapours and simultaneously change their colour

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B517768E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Dec 2005
Accepted
31 Jan 2006
First published
02 Mar 2006

Chem. Commun., 2006, 1512-1514

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Functional liquid crystal films selectively recognize amine vapours and simultaneously change their colour

N. Kirchner, L. Zedler, T. G. Mayerhöfer and G. J. Mohr, Chem. Commun., 2006, 1512 DOI: 10.1039/B517768E

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