A self-assembled liquid crystal honeycomb of highly stretched (3-1-1)-hexagons

Alexander Scholte; Sebastian Hauche; Matthias Wagner; Marko Prehm; Silvio Poppe; Changlong Chen; Feng Liu; Xiangbing Zeng; Goran Ungar; Carsten Tschierske

doi:10.1039/C9CC08502E

A self-assembled liquid crystal honeycomb of highly stretched (3-1-1)-hexagons†

Alexander Scholte,^a Sebastian Hauche,^a Matthias Wagner,^a Marko Prehm,^a Silvio Poppe,^a Changlong Chen,^b Feng Liu,

*^b Xiangbing Zeng,

^c Goran Ungar

*^bc and Carsten Tschierske

*^a

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^a Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 2, 06120 Halle, Germany
E-mail: carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de

^b State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P. R. China
E-mail: feng.liu@xjtu.edu.cn

^c Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
E-mail: g.ungar@sheffield.ac.uk

Abstract

A new liquid crystalline honeycomb phase is reported, containing highly stretched giant hexagonal cells with two opposing walls spanned by three consecutive end-to-end H-bonded rods, the (3-1-1) hexagons.

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A self-assembled liquid crystal honeycomb of highly stretched (3-1-1)-hexagons†

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