Proceedings, Volume 2, Issue 14

Reaction of 2-cyanopyridine with N-phenylthiosemicarbazide afforded the 4-phenyl-5-(pyridin-2-yl)-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazole-3-thione. Methyl 2-((4-phenyl-5-(pyridin-2-yl)-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)thio)acetate (phpy2NS, 1), derived from this 1,2,4-tr...

A new Z = 8, Z′ = 2 polymorph of 4-oxo-4-phenylbutanoic (β-benzoylpropionic) acid, C10H10O3, was obtained. The previously published two polymorphs with CCDC codes VERMAG and VERMAG01 crystallize with Z = 4, Z′ = 1 in monoclinic space groups P21/c [a...

Order to disorder transitions are important for 2D objects such as oxide films with a cellular porous structure, honeycomb, graphene, and Bénard cells in liquid and artificial systems consisting of colloid particles on a plane. For instance, solid fi...

The majority of tunable liquid crystal devices are driven by electric fields. The performance of such devices can be altered by the presence of small amounts of ions in liquid crystals. Therefore, the understanding of possible sources of ions in liqu...

Features of solute-solvent intermolecular interaction establishing hydrogen bonds were studied in view of proton sharing in the O---H+–O moiety that is the prerequisite for proton moving through water. Liquid microcrystals are expected to be formed d...

The lighter group-V element phosphorus forms the As-type (hR2) structure under pressure, above 5 GPa, and at 10 GPa transforms to the simple cubic structure (cP1), similar to arsenic. Despite its low packing density, the simple cubic structure is sta...

Microscopic properties of nanocrystal Aluminum thin film have been simulated using the quasicontinuum method in order to study the surface defect influence in nanoindentation. Various distances between the surface defect and indenter have been taken...

The structure of metallomesogen complexes differs essentially from that of calamitic liquid crystals, which emerges in their physical properties. We studied anomalous features of the transition from the nematic to isotropic phase in the ytterbium-bas...

Metallomesogenic lanthanide complexes can be used as a basis for developing magneto- and electro-optical devices. The magnitude and sign of the dielectric anisotropy both play a leading role in this case. However, any direct measurements of the diele...

A8Tl11 (A = alkali metal) compounds have been known since the investigations of Corbett et al. in 1995 and still are matter of current discussions as the compound includes one extra electron referred to the charge of the Tl117− cluster. Attempts to s...