Issue 5, 2026
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Controlling self-assembly and charge transport in photo-responsive nanostructured materials

Yu Cao, ORCID logo *ab   Tejal Nirgude,c   Frédéric Dubois,d   Dharmendra Pratap Singh, ORCID logo *d   Fengcheng Xi,a   Feng Liu ORCID logo ab  and  Mohamed Alaasar ORCID logo *ce  

* Corresponding authors

a Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P. R. China

b Institute of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of New Concept Sensors and Molecular Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China

c Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle Saale, Germany
E-mail: mohamed.alaasar@chemie.uni-halle.de

d UDSMM, Unité de Dynamique et Structure des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale, UR 4476, Calais F-62228, France

e Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, 12613 Giza, Egypt
E-mail: malaasar@sci.cu.edu.eg

Abstract

We report a new class of photo-responsive polar nanostructured liquid crystals. Controlled aromatic core fluorination directs self-assembly into a novel tetragonal mesophase with co-existing columns and micelles. These unique nanostructured materials enable tunable charge transport, providing a design model for functional organic semiconductors.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TC03932K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Nov 2025
Accepted
22 Jan 2026
First published
29 Jan 2026
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2026,14, 1799-1804

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Controlling self-assembly and charge transport in photo-responsive nanostructured materials

Y. Cao, T. Nirgude, F. Dubois, D. P. Singh, F. Xi, F. Liu and M. Alaasar, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2026, 14, 1799 DOI: 10.1039/D5TC03932K

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