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Liquid-crystalline side-chain polymeric complexes with well-defined structures have been obtained by supramolecular assembly of poly(acrylic acid) and mesogenic compounds containing imidazolyl-terminated alkyl chains. Hydrogen bonds formed between carboxylic acid and N -(alkyl)imidazole moieties can function as molecular connectors. The formation of H-bonded liquid-crystalline networks has been achieved by self-assembly of bis-imidazolyl-terminated mesogenic compounds and poly(acrylic acid). These networks exhibit smectic A phases due to the dynamic nature of the noncovalent interaction.
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Kawakami et al. (1998) studied this question.
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