title: Phospholipids with a stimuli-responsive thermotropic liquid-crystalline moiety.
abstract: Lyotropic liquid-crystalline phospholipids having an electro- and/or light-responsive mesogenic core were prepared. These LCs show lyotropic smectic A, smectic C, rectangular columnar, and nematic phases. We succeeded in the dynamic control of these LC phases by applying an electric field, which could lead to electrically switchable phospholipid bilayers.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1, Katahira, Sendai 980-8577, Japan. kanie@tagen.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kiyoshi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kanie
authors.forename: Junji
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sekiguchi
authors.forename: Xiangbing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Goran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ungar
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
mesh_terms: D004560:Electricity; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry; D050866:Liquid Crystals / Q000737:chemistry*; D044367:Phase Transition; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010743:Phospholipids