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    Liquid crystals with hierarchical ordering
    (International Conference on Neutron Scattering, 2017-07-12) de Campo, L; Moghaddam, M; Sokolova, AV; Rehm, C; Mittelbach, R; Varslot, T; Castle, T; Garvey, CJ; Kirby, N; Hyde, ST
    We present liquid crystal geometries experimentally found for star-polyphilic molecules as the basic building block. Star-polyphiles are small molecules, bearing three mutually immiscible chains attached to a common center [1,2,3]. Like conventional lipids or surfactants (that usually have two immisciblechains), such molecules self-assemble to form lamellar, hexagonal, micellar cubic and bicontinuous cubic structures. However, the presence of the third immiscible chain significantly increases structural complexity and hierarchical ordering can occur.