Molecular fluctuations in a liquid crystalline polyrotaxane have been studied by Japanese scientists. The team from The University of Tokyo and Shibaura Institute of Technology used dielectric spectroscopy to investigate a polyrotaxane (CB5PR) consisting of poly(ethylene glycol) and α-cyclodextrins chemically modified with mesogenic cyanobiphenyl groups.
Read the full article for free here: Aoi Inomata, Masatoshi Kidowaki, Yasuhiro Sakai, Hideaki Yokoyama and Kohzo Ito, Soft Matter, 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00930J
