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New structural model of a chiral cubic liquid crystalline phase

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dc.abstract.enWe have studied properties of novel thermotropic mesogenic materials that exhibit both an achiral double gyroid (Ia3̄dsymmetry) and chiral cubic phase (previously assigned theIm3̄msymmetry). We argue that in the chiral cubic phase molecules form micelles and channels arranged into continuously interconnected hexagons. From the X-ray diffraction experiment supported by modelling, exact positions of hexagons and their connections were deduced and showed to be embedded on a WP (degenerated Neovius) minimal primitive surface. The elastic energy of such a structure is close to the one of the double gyroid phase, which is in agreement with a very low enthalpy change observed at the phase transition. We also argue that the chirality of the phase is related to the lack of mirror symmetry of non-flat hexagons accompanied by an alternating inclination of molecules in the neighbouring segments of hexagon; the chirality of individual hexagon is amplified on the whole hexagon network by steric effects.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorVogrin, Martin
dc.contributor.authorVaupotič, Nataša
dc.contributor.authorMatraszek, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorPociecha, Damian
dc.contributor.authorGórecka, Ewa
dc.contributor.authorSalamończyk, Mirosław
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T13:48:55Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T13:48:55Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number22
dc.description.volume22
dc.identifier.doi10.1039/D0CP01579B
dc.identifier.issn1463-9076
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/113628
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/CP/D0CP01579B
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationchemical sciences
dc.relation.ispartofPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
dc.relation.pages12814-12820
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.titleNew structural model of a chiral cubic liquid crystalline phase
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication