The triangular cylinder phase: A new mode of self-assembly in liquid-crystalline soft matter

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 129, Issue 31, 2007, Pages 9578-9579

  Liu, Feng ^a   Chen, Bin ^b   Baumeister, Ute ^b   Zeng, Xiangbing ^a   Ungar, Goran ^a   Tschierske, Carsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THICKNESS;

EID: 34547793244     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja073079h     Document Type: Article

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19. 6) where each tile is a triangle and six of them meet at each node. However, if a polygonal shape of the projection of the walls and the nodes is presumed, this structure can be described as a three-color tessellation of the type (4.6.12) composed of rectangular (aromatic), hexagonal (EO), and dodecagonal (aliphatic) tiles (see Figure 2c).