title: Alkyl-bis(imidazolium) salts: a new amphiphile platform that forms thermotropic and non-aqueous lyotropic bicontinuous cubic phases.
abstract: New ionic amphiphiles with a hexyl-bridged bis(imidazolium) headgroup; Br(-), BF4(-), or Tf2N(-) anions; and a long n-alkyl tail can form thermotropic bicontinuous cubic liquid crystal phases in neat form and/or lyotropic bicontinuous cubic phases with several non-aqueous solvents or water.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA. gin@spot.colorado.edu.
authors.forename: Lily A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Magdalene R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Schenkel
authors.forename: Brian R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Wiesenauer
authors.forename: Douglas L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Gin