Nanoporous polymer materials based on self-organized, bicontinuous cubic lyotropic liquid crystal assemblies and their applications

Polymer Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 461-468

  Wiesenauer, Brian R ^a   Gin, Douglas L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

bicontinuous cubic; liquid crystal; lyotropic; nanoporous; polymer

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC MOLECULES; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; BICONTINUOUS; CONVENTIONAL MONOMERS; DIRECT POLYMERIZATION; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; LYOTROPICS; MATERIAL APPLICATION; NANO-POROUS; NANOPOROUS POLYMERS; POLYMER MATERIALS; POLYMER NETWORKS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SINGLE MOLECULE; TEMPLATED POLYMERIZATION; WATER CHANNELS;

FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULES; POLYMERIZATION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84861933203     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2012.15     Document Type: Review

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