Issue 87, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Facile preparation of oriented nanoporous silica films from solvent-free liquid-crystalline mixtures†

Norihiro Mizoshita,ab   Takao Taniab  and  Shinji Inagaki*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., Nagakute, Japan
E-mail: inagaki@mosk.tytlabs.co.jp
Fax: +81-561-63-6507

b Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Japan

Abstract

Mixtures of an amphiphilic perylene bisimide derivative and tetramethoxysilane in the absence of solvents have been found to exhibit stable columnar liquid-crystalline phases which transform into macroscopically oriented nanoporous silica films as a result of simple mechanical shearing.

Graphical abstract: Facile preparation of oriented nanoporous silica films from solvent-free liquid-crystalline mixtures

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC36306B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 Jul 2012
Accepted
17 Sep 2012
First published
18 Sep 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 10772-10774

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Facile preparation of oriented nanoporous silica films from solvent-free liquid-crystalline mixtures

N. Mizoshita, T. Tani and S. Inagaki, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 10772 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC36306B

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