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  1. Controlling Microsized Polymorphic Architectures with Distinct Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  2. Maximizing Orientational Order in Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Crystals Using High Magnetic Fields

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  3. Ultra-responsive soft matter from strain-stiffening hydrogels

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  4. Chromophoric Polyisocyanide Materials

    Article • July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  5. Stabilisation of 2D colloidal assemblies by polymerisation of liquid crystalline matrices for photonic applications

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  6. A facile route to hydrophilic ionic liquids

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  7. Templated Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Poly(p-aryltriazole) Foldamers

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  8. Templated Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Poly(p-aryltriazole) Foldamers

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, September 2013, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  9. Preparation and characterization of non-linear poly(ethylene glycol) analogs from oligo(ethylene glycol) functionalized polyisocyanopeptides

    Article • European Polymer Journal, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  10. Self-Assembled Organic Microfibers for Nonlinear Optics

    Article • Advanced Materials, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  11. Stiffness versus architecture of single helical polyisocyanopeptides

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Kerstin Blank, Dr Paul Kouwer

  12. Towards room-temperature ionic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  13. Responsive biomimetic networks from polyisocyanopeptide hydrogels

    Article • Nature, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  14. Postfunctionalization of Helical Polyisocyanopeptides with Phthalocyanine Chromophores by “Click Chemistry”

    Article • ChemPlusChem, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  15. The trisubstituted-triazole approach to extended functional naphthalocyanines

    Article • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, September 2011, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  16. Fusing Triazoles: Toward Extending Aromaticity

    Article • Organic Letters, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  17. Triazole: a unique building block for the construction of functional materials

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  18. Triazole–pyridineligands: a novel approach to chromophoric iridium arrays

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  19. Multichromophoric Phthalocyanine-(Perylenediimide)8Molecules: A Photophysical Study

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  20. Dynamics of molecular self-ordering in tetraphenyl porphyrin monolayers on metallic substrates

    Article • Nanotechnology, June 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Dr mathieu Linares

  21. Hierarchical organisation in shape-amphiphilic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2009, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  22. A Novel Modular Approach to Triazole-Functionalized Phthalocyanines Using Click Chemistry

    Article • The Journal of Organic Chemistry, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  23. Uniform N-(2-Aminoethyl)(3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane Monolayer Growth in Water

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  24. Long- and Short-Range Order in the Mesophases of Laterally Substituted Calamitic Mesogens and their Radial Octapodes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, May 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Demetri Photinos, Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  25. Columnar mesophases from half-discoid platinum cyclometalated metallomesogens

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Dr Peter Mueller

  26. Synthesis and Mesomorphic Properties of Rigid-Core Ionic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  27. Shape Dependence in the Formation of Condensed Phases Exhibited by Disubstituted Sucrose Esters

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, February 2007, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  28. Columnar phase structures of an organic–inorganic hybrid functionalized with eight calamitic mesogens

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Demetri Photinos, Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  29. Local lamellar organisation of discotic mesogens carrying fluorinated tails

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  30. Self-Organizing Properties of Monosubstituted Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters: The Effects of Chain Length and Unsaturation

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, April 2006, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  31. Disc-shaped triphenylenes in a smectic organisation

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2004, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  32. Discotic Multipodes with Nematic Mesophases

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  33. Mixtures of disc-shaped and rod-shaped mesogens with chiral components

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2004, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  34. The Nematic Discotic Phase in Materials Containing a Siloxane Core

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  35. Substituent Effects in Discotic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  36. Dynamics and Phase Transitions in Discotic and Calamitic Liquid Crystal Side-chain Polymers

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  37. Multiple Levels of Order in Linked Disc–Rod Liquid Crystals

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, December 2003, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  38. Multiple Levels of Order in Linked Disc–Rod Liquid Crystals

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, December 2003, Wiley

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  39. Synthesis of Amphiphilic Phenylazophenyl Glycosides and a Study of Their Liquid Crystal Properties

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  40. Full Miscibility of Disk- and Rod-Shaped Mesogens in the Nematic Phase

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, August 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer, Georg Mehl

  41. NEMATIC PHASES OF DISC-AND ROD-SHAPED MOLECULES

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  42. Dynamics of a Triphenylene Discotic Molecule, HAT6, in the Columnar and Isotropic Liquid Phases

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 2003, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  43. Specific interactions in discotic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  44. Nematic Phases of Disc-And Rod-Shaped Molecules

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, January 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  45. A bilayer to monolayer phase transition in liquid crystal glycolipidsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: synthesis of compound 3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b3/b308880d/

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  46. Charge Transfer Complexes of Discotic Liquid Crystals:  A Flexible Route to a Wide Variety of Mesophases

    Article • Macromolecules, April 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  47. Induced Liquid Crystalline Diversity in Molecular and Polymeric Charge-Transfer Complexes of Discotic Mesogens

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  48. The Nematic Lateral Phase:  A Novel Phase in Discotic Supramolecular Assemblies

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  49. A Series of Novel Liquid Crystalline Polymers Showing a Nematic Discotic and/or a Nematic Columnar Phase

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, August 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  50. Modeling of ND and NCol Phase Transitions in Discotic Side Chain Polymers by the Extended McMillan Theory

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, April 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  51. Synthesis and Characterization of a Novel Liquid Crystalline Polymer Showing a Nematic Columnar to Nematic Discotic Phase Transition

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2000, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer

  52. A Novel Polyaryl Ether Based Photorefractive Composite

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, November 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Paul Kouwer