A triple-network tricontinuous cubic liquid crystal

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 562-567

  Zeng, Xiangbing ^a   Ungar, Goran ^a   Impéror Clerc, Marianne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COPOLYMERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS; MICROEMULSIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE SEPARATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

BICONTINUOUS PHASES; CUBIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CYLINDER PHASES; INFINITE PERIODIC MINIMUM SURFACE (IPMS); PHOTONIC MATERIALS;

THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; POROSITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; POROSITY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 21844432988     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1413     Document Type: Review

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