Complex multicolor tilings and critical phenomena in tetraphilic liquid crystals

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6022, 2011, Pages 1302-1306

  Zeng, Xiangbing ^a   Kieffer, Robert ^b   Glettner, Benjamin ^b   Nürnberger, Constance ^b   Liu, Feng ^a   Pelz, Karsten ^b   Prehm, Marko ^b   Baumeister, Ute ^b   Hahn, Harald ^c   Lang, Heinrich ^c   Gehring, Gillian A ^a   Weber, Christa H M ^a   Hobbs, Jamie K ^a   Tschierske, Carsten ^b   Ungar, Goran ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; POLYGON;

ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIAL STATE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952499901     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1193052     Document Type: Article

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26. This work was supported as part of the European Science Foundation Eurocores Program SONS 2 (Self-Organised NanoStructures 2), project SCALES, by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme (grant NERASCT-2003-989409); by the government of Saxonia-Anhalt in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence "Nanostructured Materials"; the DFG-funded Research Unit FG 1145; and the World Class University program through the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (grant R31-10013). For their help in setting up synchrotron experiments, we thank N. Terrill, C. Pizzey, S. Collins, and A. Bombardi at beamlines I22 and I16, Diamond Light Source, and D. Mannix, S. Brown, and P. Thompson at beamline BM28 at the European Synchrotron Research Facility. We are grateful to A. Perkins and B. Deme at beamline D16, Institut Laue-Langevin, for their help with neutron-scattering experiments.