2D and 3D ordered columnar liquid crystal phases by bundles of bolaamphiphiles with swallow-tail side chains

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 45, 2008, Pages 14922-14923

  Prehm, Marko ^a   Liu, Feng ^b   Zeng, Xiangbing ^b   Ungar, Goran ^b   Tschierske, Carsten ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 57349180569     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja805742t     Document Type: Article

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