Liquid Organic Frameworks: The Single-Network “Plumber’s Nightmare” Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal
Silvio Poppe, Xiaohong Cheng, Changlong Chen, Xiangbing Zeng, Rui-bin Zhang, Feng Liu, Goran Ungar, Carsten Tschierske
Abstract
Novel bolapolyphiles, built of a p-terphenyl or bistolane core with polar glycerol end-groups and two laterally attached n-alkyl or semiperfluoroalkyl chains, form the first “single plumber’s nightmare network”, the simplest soft-matter cubic phase (Pm3̅m). Its cage-like grid comprises bundles of aromatic rods lying along the cubic unit cell edges, connected by six-way hydrogen-bonded junctions. Side-chains fill the remaining volume of this unique noninterpenetrating liquid-crystalline organic framework.
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ChemistryAlkylNightmareLiquid crystalCrystallographyColumnar phasePhase (matter)Condensed matter physicsOrganic chemistryLiquid crystallinePhysicsPsychologyPsychotherapistSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsSupramolecular Chemistry and Complexes