Induction of bicontinuous cubic liquid-crystalline assemblies for polymerizable amphiphiles via tailor-made design of ionic liquids†
Abstract
The lyotropic liquid-crystalline behavior of polymerizable amphiphiles has been tuned by using tailor-made ionic liquids as solvents so as to induce the formation of bicontinuous cubic assemblies having 3D interconnected nanochannels. The fixation of the amphiphilic assemblies has been successfully achieved by in situ photopolymerization.