A columnar liquid-crystalline shape-persistent macrocycle having a nanosegregated structure.
A shape-persistent macrocyclic molecule having glutamic acid and oligooxyethylene moieties exhibits a hexagonal columnar liquid-crystalline phase at ambient temperature through nanosegregation and the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonding.
Shimura
Harutoki
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Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Yoshio
Masafumi
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Kato
Takashi
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