Liquid crystals with hierarchical ordering

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.

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Liquid crystals, Molecules, Lipids, Hexagonal lattices, Micellar systems, Cubic lattices

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de Campo, L., Moghaddam, M., Sokolova, A., Rehm, C., Mittelbach, R., Varslot, T., Castle, T., Garvey, C., Kirby, N., & Hyde, S. (2017). Liquid crystals with hierarchical ordering. Paper presented at ICNS 2017 (International Conference on Neutron Scattering), Daejeon, South Korea, 9 to 13 July 2017. Retrieved from: http://www.icns2017.org/program.php

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http://www.icns2017.org/program.php
https://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/11278

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