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University of Sheffield : B - Materials Science and Engineering
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Article title
Arrays of giant octagonal and square cylinders by liquid crystalline self-assembly of X-shaped polyphilic molecules
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Nature Communications
Article number
1104
Volume number
3
Issue number
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First page of article
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ISSN of journal
20411723
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
6
Additional information
A new type of liquid-crystal is obtained from new tetraphilic X-shaped molecules in this interdisciplinary international study. Large square and stretched octagonal cylinders form a complex 2D honeycomb-like array. This work shows, for the first time, how highly ordered networks of large cylinders can be produced from relatively small molecules. The cylinders have the largest cross-section in any cellular liquid crystal, opening new ways of surface nanopatterning by self-assembly, as well as entrapping within the cylinders large guest moieties such as drugs, OLEDs and plasmonic nanoparticles.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Proposed double-weighted
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