Liquid Crystal Honeycombs and Other Complex Phase Structures of T-Shaped Ternary Amphiphiles

2 Liquid Crystal Honeycombs and Other Complex Phase Structures of T-Shaped Ternary Amphiphiles 

A new direction in LC research is based on polyphilic molecules with a T-shaped molecular topology [8, 310-313]. Usually, in these molecules a rigid rod-like core 

In their LC phases these T-shaped block molecules, bearing three types of mutually incompatible groups, were found to form many different types of fluid self 

14 Besides the T-shaped bolaamphiphiles covered here, there are also T-shaped polyphiles with a reversed position of hydrophilic and lipophilic units, see [311-313], 

Another feature of the large honeycombs is the nano-phase segregation within the cylinders. The fluorinated segments congregate in the center while the alkyl spacers line the interior of the cylinder walls. This core-shell-in-cylinder 

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