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Molecular ejection transition in liquid crystal columns self-assembled from wedge-shaped minidendrons

Published:2019 Issue:1 Volume:15 Page:22-29
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Fall William S.¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Yen Ming-Huei⁶⁷⁸,Zeng Xiangbing⁶⁷⁸^ORCID,Cseh Liliana⁹¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Liu Yongsong¹²³,Gehring Gillian A.⁴⁵⁸^ORCID,Ungar Goran¹²³⁶⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Xiasha College Park

2. Hangzhou 310018

3. China

4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield

5. Sheffield S3 7RH

6. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield

7. Sheffield S1 3JD

8. UK

9. Institute of Chemistry Timisoara of Romanian Academy

10. Timisoara-300223

11. Romania

Abstract

A first-order mesophase transition between 4-dendron and 3-dendron columns, resulting from temperature-induced molecular ejection, is discovered and explained via statistical modelling.

Funder

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Leverhulme Trust

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/SM/C8SM01851K

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