Self-assembled blue-light emitting materials for their liquid crystalline and OLED applications: from a simple molecular design to supramolecular materials

A new family of blue-light-emitting supramolecular bowl-shaped columnar hexagonal liquid crystals based on p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene and functionalized via chalconyl–ester-linked biphenyl amine derivatives form a self-assembly and their applications.