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Facile preparation of oriented nanoporous silica films from solvent-free liquid-crystalline mixtures
Norihiro Mizoshita1, Takao Tani, Shinji Inagaki
1Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 2, 2012
Abstract:
Mixtures of an amphiphilic perylene bisimide derivative and tetramethoxysilane in the absence of solvents have been found to exhibit stable columnar liquid-crystalline phases which transform into macroscopically oriented nanoporous silica films as a result of simple mechanical shearing.
