title: Liquid crystalline networks composed of pentagonal, square, and triangular cylinders.
abstract: T-shaped molecules are designed in such a way that they self-organize into nanoscale liquid crystalline honeycombs based on polygons with any chosen number of sides. One of the phases reported here is a periodic organization of identical pentagonal cylinders; the other one is a structure composed of square-shaped and triangular cylinders in the ratio 2:1. These two different packing motifs represent duals of the same topological class. The generalization of the concept applied here allows the prediction of a whole range of unusual complex liquid crystalline phases.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Organic Chemistry, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Strasse 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xiangbing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Baumeister
authors.forename: Goran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ungar
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tschierske