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Orientational Transition in a Liquid Crystal Triggered by the Thermodynamic Growth of Interfacial Wetting Sheets
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Template-guided organization of chromonic liquid crystals into micropatterned anisotropic organic solids
Suk-Wah Tam-Chang1, Jennifer Helbley, Travis D Carson
1Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA. tchang@chem.unr.edu
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 25, 2006
Abstract:
We have developed an approach to generate micropatterns of anisotropic organic materials which exploits the self-organization, driven by pi-stacking and hydrophobic interactions, of an ionic perylenebis(dicarboximide) in aqueous solutions.
