Frustration between two- and three-dimensional smectic ordering leads to a biaxial nematic phase-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Frustration between two- and three-dimensional smectic ordering leads to a biaxial nematic phase

Published:2020 Issue:3 Volume:16 Page:747-753
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Chen Dong¹²³⁴⁵,Coleman David A.⁶⁷⁸⁹,Zhu Chenhui⁶⁷⁸⁹,Chattham Nattaporn⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Jenz Frank⁶⁷⁸⁹¹¹,Cheng Xiaohong¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵¹⁶^ORCID,Tschierske Carsten¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵^ORCID,Glaser Matthew A.⁶⁷⁸⁹,Maclennan Joseph E.⁶⁷⁸⁹^ORCID,Clark Noel A.⁶⁷⁸⁹

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Process Equipment

2. College of Energy Engineering

3. Zhejiang University

4. Hangzhou

5. China

6. Department of Physics and Soft Materials Research Center

7. University of Colorado

8. Boulder

9. USA

10. Department of Physics

11. Institute of Physical Chemistry

12. Institute of Organic Chemistry

13. Martin-Luther-University

14. Halle

15. Germany

16. Department of Chemistry

Abstract

T-shaped bolaamphiphiles develop 2D smectic ordering which is incompatible with the initial lamellar structure, with both structures becoming short-ranged and resulting in a 3D biaxial nematic phase with macroscopic orthorhombic symmetry.

Funder

Division of Materials Research

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/SM/C9SM01809C

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