Evidence of nematic, hexagonal and rectangular columnar phases in thermotropic ionic liquid crystals

Autor: Franck Artzner, Anne-Marie Levelut, Michèle Veber, Marianne Clerc
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Liquid Crystals. 23:27-33
ISSN: 1366-5855
0267-8292
DOI: 10.1080/026782997208631
Popis: Dithiolium salts, with amphipathic character, are compounds of choice for investigations of the influence of an ionic feature upon mesomorphic properties. In this way, salts bearing a branched chain have been studied by SAXS. In spite of their rod-like shape, they exhibit only columnar mesophases, the supramolecular organization of which is close to that of cylindrical inverted micelles. Moreover, the nematic columnar phase, characterized by the loss of lateral positional correlations of the columns themselves, is one of the first examples of such behaviour in the case of thermotropic liquid crystals.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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