Substituent effects in columnar beta-diketonate metallomesogens /

Míreanna Comhchosúla

• Columnar liquid crystals from wedge-shaped tetrahedral copper(I) complexes/
• Liquid-crystalline azines formed by the rare-earth promoted decomposition of hydrazide habbeligands : Structural and thermal properties /
• Aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition of silver films from adducts of functionalised silver carboxylates /
• Molecular design at the calamitic/discotic cross-over point. Mononuclear ortho-metallated mesogens based on the combination of rod-like phenylpyrimidines and -pyridines with bent or half-disc-shaped diketonates /
• Crystal and electronic structure of the novel nitrides MYSi4N7(M= Sr, Ba) with peculiar NSi4 coordination /