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Preparation of Monodomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Liquid Crystal Elastomer Nanocomposites
Published on: February 6, 2016
Sulfur-oleyl amine platelet derivatives with liquid crystalline behavior
Vasileios Tzitzios1,2, Konstantinos Dimos3, Ioannis Lelidis4
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Petroleum Institute P. O. Box 2533 Abu Dhaabi United Arab Emirates v.tzitzios@inn.demokritos.gr vasileios.tzitzios@ku.ac.ae saeed.alkhazraji@ku.ac.ae.
Abstract:
A novel sulfur-based platelet derivative was synthesized by reacting elemental sulfur with oleyl amine. The sulfur-oleyl amine (S-OA) derivative has an ionic salt form, layered morphology and forms a highly lamellar structure. Polarized optical microscopy (POM) clearly shows the birefringent lyotropic liquid crystalline behavior of the S-OA platelets dispersions.

