Patent ID: 7910181

Claim:
A well-organized, anisotropic material prepared by: providing a solution of subunits, and applying a magnetic field to the solution of subunits under conditions for assembly of the subunits to direct orientation of the subunits for assembly or self-assembly into the well-organized, anisotropic material; and wherein the subunits are naphthalene dicyclic-ring stators with two substituted ethynylbenzene rotors, as shown in FIG. 17 , wherein substituents include: acceptor groups, indicated by the letter “A” in FIG. 17 , electron-withdrawing groups including one or more of carboxylic acid or derivatives, sulfuric acid or derivatives, phosphoric acid or derivatives, aldehyde or derivatives, ketone or derivatives, imine or derivatives, hydrazone or derivatives, >C═C(COR) 2 ,>C═C(COOR) 2 ,>C═C(COR)COOR′,>C═C(CN) 2 ,>C═C(CN)COR,>C═C( CN)COOR, where R and R′ represent an alkyl or aryl group, azo, nitro, nitrile, hetero atoms, such as N, O, S, P, F, Cl, and Br, functional groups with at least one of above-mentioned atoms, such as OH, SH, NH, hydrocarbons, and substituted hydrocarbons; donor groups, indicated by the letter “D” in FIG. 17 , electron-donating groups including one or more of hydrogen, amine, OH, SH, ether, hydrocarbon, substituted hydrocarbon, and functional groups with at least one hetero atom, such as B, Si, I, N, O, S, P; and a conjugated connecting unit liriking the rotor and stator portion together, represented in FIG. 17 by the symbols “G 1 ” and “G 2 .”