Frustrated self-assembly of dendron and dendrimer-based supramolecular liquid crystals
- Mezzenga, Raffaele Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Fribourg, Switzerland - Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Ruokolainen, Janne Department of Engineering Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
- Canilho, Nadia Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Kasëmi, Edis Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Materials, Institute of Polymers, Zurich, Switzerland
- Schlüter, Dieter A. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Department of Materials, Institute of Polymers, Zurich, Switzerland
- Lee, Won Bo Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Fredrickson, Glenn H. Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
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27.10.2008
Published in:
- Soft Matter. - 2009, vol. 5, p. 92-97
English
A new "inverted" topological configuration is demonstrated both experimentally and theoretically for self-assembled dendron and dendrimer-based supramolecular liquid crystals in which the dendrons/dendrimers occupy the continuous domain and the ionically attached pendant chains are confined in discrete domains. All previous studies on dendrimer and dendron-based liquid crystals have reported "normal" liquid crystalline configurations in which the dendritic templates occupy discrete domains (in spherical or columnar phases) or continuous struts (in bicontinuous cubic phases), while the pendant chains occupy the continuous space-filling domain. These surprising results mandate a re-examination of the packing mechanisms for this important class of materials and open new routes to unique nanostructures of possible use in existing and emerging technologies.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 11414
- DOI 10.1039/b814972k
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301114
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