Nanostructuring of Polyphilic Liquid Crystals

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The organisation of molecules in liquid crystal phases relies on many factors, often related to space-filling considerations driven by the volume of different molecular fragments. However, in systems that contain, for example, hydrocarbon and fluorocarbon chains, the mutual immiscibility of the fragments can drive the system into higher degrees of order. In collaboration with Pace and Pibiri in Palermo, Italy, we are preparing and characterising (through a joint student) the behaviour of polyphilic compounds that contain hydrocarbon, fluorocarbon and charged segments. The ordering is a function of the need for all three different fragments to be located close to another like fragment, but from the preliminary data available from small-angle X-ray scattering, the nature of the organisation is not clear. SANS experiments offer the possibility to unravel the details of the nanostructuring.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84791840
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84791840
Provenance
Creator Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr John Slattery; Mr Jordan Herod; Dr Christopher Cabry; Professor Duncan Bruce; Mr Alessio Riccobono
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-19T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-21T09:00:00Z