Smectic liquid-crystalline physical gels. Anisotropic self-aggregation of hydrogen-bonded molecules in layered structures

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Norihiro Mizoshita, Takaaki Kutsuna, Takashi Kato and Kenji Hanabusa


Abstract

Smectic liquid-crystalline states have been successfully gelled by low molecular weight hydrogen-bonded molecules and anisotropic fibrous aggregates of the gelling agents are obtained when the sol–gel transition occurs within the smectic temperature range.


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