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The synthesis of a novel class of organosiloxane oligopodes, based on an axially chiral binaphthalene core is described and their mesogenic properties are fully characterised.

A new class of mesogenic dipyrrins is reported and their use in the fabrication of fluorescent and metal-containing self assembling materials is demonstrated.

Disc and rod shaped molecules which are completely miscible in the nematic phase were synthesised and the miscibility behaviour was investigated and confirmed by POM, DSC and XRD studies.

Photochromic liquid crystals based on [2H]-chromenes functionalised in the 3,3[prime or minute]-positions by phenyl groups linked to 4-cyano-4[prime or minute]-hydroxybiphenyl groups via alkyl and siloxane spacers as chromophore were synthesised and the photochromic and mesomorphic behaviour was investigated., (Copyright 2004 The Royal Society of Chemistry)

A photochromic liquid crystal system based on a diarylethene functionalised in the 2,2'-positions and linked to 4-cyano-4'-hydroxybiphenyl groups via alkyl spacers as chromophores was synthesised and its photochromic and mesomorphic behaviour was investigated.

A layered phase (SmA) was observed in a novel linked disc-rod mesogen, containing a triphenylene mesogen and attached to three cyanobiphenyl moieties.