Jump to main content
Jump to site search
Publishing
Advanced

Issue 26, 2016
Previous Article Next Article

Mirror symmetry breaking by mixing of equimolar amounts of two gyroid phase-forming achiral molecules†

Shoichi Kutsumizu,*a   Suguru Miisako,a   Yohei Miwa,a   Makoto Kitagawa,a   Yasuhisa Yamamurab  and  Kazuya Saitob  
Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Yanagido, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
E-mail: kutsu@gifu-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81 58 293 2794
Tel: +81 58 293 2573

b Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan

Abstract

Mirror symmetry breaking was observed by mixing of equimolar amounts of two gyroid phase-forming achiral molecules, one having a short and the other with a long tail. This fact indicates the importance of a critical chain length for the appearance of the chiral bicontinuous cubic (Cubbi) phase. It also demonstrates that the molecular-level mobility is closely connected to the formation and stabilisation of those Cubbi phases.

Graphical abstract: Mirror symmetry breaking by mixing of equimolar amounts of two gyroid phase-forming achiral molecules

Back to tab navigation
Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP02954J
Submitted
03 May 2016
Accepted
06 Jun 2016
First published
06 Jun 2016
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 17341-17344
Article type
Communication
Permissions
Request permissions

Mirror symmetry breaking by mixing of equimolar amounts of two gyroid phase-forming achiral molecules

S. Kutsumizu, S. Miisako, Y. Miwa, M. Kitagawa, Y. Yamamura and K. Saito, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 17341
DOI: 10.1039/C6CP02954J

If you are not the author of this article and you wish to reproduce material from it in a third party non-RSC publication you must formally request permission using Copyright Clearance Center. Go to our Instructions for using Copyright Clearance Center page for details.

Authors contributing to RSC publications (journal articles, books or book chapters) do not need to formally request permission to reproduce material contained in this article provided that the correct acknowledgement is given with the reproduced material.

Reproduced material should be attributed as follows:

  • For reproduction of material from NJC:
    Reproduced from Ref. XX with permission from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and The Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • For reproduction of material from PCCP:
    Reproduced from Ref. XX with permission from the PCCP Owner Societies.
  • For reproduction of material from PPS:
    Reproduced from Ref. XX with permission from the European Society for Photobiology, the European Photochemistry Association, and The Royal Society of Chemistry.
  • For reproduction of material from all other RSC journals and books:
    Reproduced from Ref. XX with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry.

If the material has been adapted instead of reproduced from the original RSC publication "Reproduced from" can be substituted with "Adapted from".

In all cases the Ref. XX is the XXth reference in the list of references.

If you are the author of this article you do not need to formally request permission to reproduce figures, diagrams etc. contained in this article in third party publications or in a thesis or dissertation provided that the correct acknowledgement is given with the reproduced material.

Reproduced material should be attributed as follows:

  • For reproduction of material from NJC:
    [Original citation] - Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) on behalf of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the RSC
  • For reproduction of material from PCCP:
    [Original citation] - Reproduced by permission of the PCCP Owner Societies
  • For reproduction of material from PPS:
    [Original citation] - Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) on behalf of the European Society for Photobiology, the European Photochemistry Association, and RSC
  • For reproduction of material from all other RSC journals:
    [Original citation] - Reproduced by permission of The Royal Society of Chemistry

If you are the author of this article you still need to obtain permission to reproduce the whole article in a third party publication with the exception of reproduction of the whole article in a thesis or dissertation.

Information about reproducing material from RSC articles with different licences is available on our Permission Requests page.

Social activity

Search articles by author

Spotlight

Advertisements