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A bilayer to monolayer phase transition in liquid crystal glycolipids
Valérie Molinier1, Paul H J Kouwer, Yves Queneau
1Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, INSA de Lyon, Bât, J. Verne, 20 Avenue A. Einstein, 69621, Villeurbanne cedex, France.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 19, 2003
Abstract:
Investigations of the thermotropic liquid-crystalline properties of 6,6'-di-O-stearoylsucrose show, for the first time, that glycolipids can exhibit phase transitions within the smectic A phase.