Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.290, 31-31, 1996
Self-Organization in Stable and Metastable Langmuir-Blodgett-Films of Liquid-Crystalline Porphyrins
We report an AFM imaging study of molecular self-aggregation and organization in LB layers of mesogenic porphyrin derivatives. The images were taken from molecular resolution to the mesoscopic range, as a function of deposition pressure and of elapsed time after deposition. At the molecular level, from the images we were able to determine molecular dimensions and pseudomeso-morphic structure, which was columnar. As a function of elapsed time. such images remained stable if the deposition was performed at the pseudo-solid part of the isotherm. For deposition in the coexistence, condensed liquid stage, as a function of time the images showed remarkable molecular self-organization processes, occurring over several length scales.