Physical gels made of liquid crystalline B4 phase

Anna Zep; Miroslaw Salamonczyk; Nataša Vaupotič; Damian Pociecha; Ewa Gorecka

doi:10.1039/C3CC41225C

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Physical gels made of liquid crystalline B₄ phase†

Anna Zep,^a Miroslaw Salamonczyk,^a Nataša Vaupotič,^bc Damian Pociecha^a and Ewa Gorecka*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
E-mail: gorecka@chem.uw.edu.pl

^b Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

^c Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

The achiral liquid crystalline materials showing two B₄ (HN) phases have been found to exhibit strong gelation ability for various organic solvents with reversible sol–gel phase transition. The gel is formed by helical tubules, which build entangled 3D network, encapsulating the solvent. The equilibrium of left- and right-handed tubules is preserved in the gel, even if the chiral solvent is used.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC41225C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 Feb 2013
Accepted: 27 Feb 2013
First published: 27 Feb 2013

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Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 3119-3121

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Physical gels made of liquid crystalline B₄ phase

A. Zep, M. Salamonczyk, N. Vaupotič, D. Pociecha and E. Gorecka, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 3119 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC41225C

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