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From Molecules to Materials: Engineering New Ionic Liquid Crystals Through Halogen Bonding
Published on: March 24, 2018
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Design of V-shaped ionic liquid crystals: atropisomerisation ability and formation of double-gyroid molecular
Takahiro Ichikawa1, Soki Obara1, Saori Yamaguchi1
1Department of Biotechnology and Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan. t-ichi@cc.tuat.ac.jp.
Abstract:
We designed V-shaped ionic liquid crystals with two sterically congested ionic parts at the vertex. Depending on the degree of steric hindrance, atropisomerisation occurred in solution. All compounds formed bicontinuous cubic phases with double-gyroid structures in the bulk state, partially owing to the co-existence of atropisomers with opposite chirality.

