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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Organogels based on 1H-imidazolecarboxamide amphiphiles
Sang Hyuk Seo1, Jun Ha Park, Ji Young Chang
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea.
Abstract:
We prepared 1H-imidazolecarboxamide amphiphiles as potential organogelators. Compounds A1-A3, in which an imidazole head was connected to a hydrophobic trialkyloxyphenyl group, showed an ability to gelate nonpolar solvents, including alkanes. The dry gels obtained from compounds A1-A3 had columnar hexagonal structures. Polycatenar 1H-imidazolecarboxamide amphiphile B2, consisting of a 1H-imidazole head connected through a benzene ring to a tridecyloxyphenyl tail, formed an organogel in DMSO. In a concentrated THF solution (30 wt %), compound B2 exhibited a lyotropic liquid-crystalline phase with a columnar hexagonal structure. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results suggested a molecular arrangement consisting of a disk, via hydrogen bonding between successive imidazole moieties, and an assembly of columnar structures.
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