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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 11, Pages 1564-1575Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b819877b
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- EU [HPRN-CT2000-00016]
- Ramsay Memorial Fellowship Trust (PHJK)
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Shape-amphiphilic liquid crystals offer a route towards complex assemblies at the difficult 10 nanometer length scale. We present the preparation and mesomorphic characterisation of three novel shape amphiphiles based on azobenzenes. Their mesophases range from a simple nematic to complex lamellar phases of alternating layers of discotic and calamitic mesogens. In all smectic phases, the discotic and calamitic moieties are nanophase separated. As the different sub-layers start to tilt and/or display in-layer order independently, the mesophase assignment becomes more complex. Using temperature dependent X-ray diffraction we studied their characteristics.
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