000145697 001__ 145697 000145697 005__ 20241122130823.0 000145697 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.3390/molecules29184459 000145697 0248_ $$2sideral$$a140685 000145697 037__ $$aART-2024-140685 000145697 041__ $$aeng 000145697 100__ $$aBendaoud, Umama 000145697 245__ $$aModulating the Conductivity of Light-Responsive Ionic Liquid Crystals 000145697 260__ $$c2024 000145697 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000145697 5203_ $$aIn this work, we describe the phase behaviour and the dielectric and conductivity response of new light-responsive ionic liquid crystals, ILCs, which can be applied as controllable electrolytes. The materials include two different dicationic viologens, the asymmetric 6BP18 and the symmetric EV2ON(Tf)2, containing bistriflimide as the counterions, mixed with 5% and 50% molar, respectively, of one new photoresponsive mesogen called CNAzO14. These mixtures exhibit liquid crystal behaviour, light responsiveness through the E-Z photoisomerisation of the azobenzene groups in CNAzO14, and strong dielectric responses. The 5%-CNAzO14/Ev2ON(Tf)2 mixture displays direct current conductivities in the 10−7 S·cm−1 range, which can be increased by a two-fold factor upon the irradiation of UV light at 365 nm. Our findings set the grounds for designing new smart ionic soft materials with nanostructures that can be tuned and used for energy conversion and storage applications. 000145697 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E47-23R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN-FEDER/PID2021-122882NB-I00 000145697 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000145697 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000145697 700__ $$aBhowmik, Pradip K. 000145697 700__ $$aChen, Si L. 000145697 700__ $$aHan, Haesook 000145697 700__ $$aCox, Seonghyeok L. 000145697 700__ $$aLiebsch, Jasmin 000145697 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-4416-1036$$aRos, M. Blanca$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000145697 700__ $$aSelvi Velayutham, Thamil 000145697 700__ $$aAripin, Nurul Fadhilah Kamalul 000145697 700__ $$aMartinez-Felipe, Alfonso 000145697 7102_ $$12013$$2765$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Química Orgánica$$cÁrea Química Orgánica 000145697 773__ $$g29, 18 (2024), 4459 [13 pp.]$$pMolecules (Basel, Online)$$tMolecules$$x1420-3049 000145697 8564_ $$s3388339$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145697/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000145697 8564_ $$s2630335$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/145697/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000145697 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:145697$$particulos$$pdriver 000145697 951__ $$a2024-11-22-11:52:48 000145697 980__ $$aARTICLE