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Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Nov 11;48(87):10772-4. doi: 10.1039/c2cc36306b.

Facile preparation of oriented nanoporous silica films from solvent-free liquid-crystalline mixtures.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Norihiro Mizoshita, Takao Tani, Shinji Inagaki

Affiliations

  1. Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Inc., Nagakute, Aichi 480-1192, Japan.

PMID: 23023655 DOI: 10.1039/c2cc36306b

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.

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