title: Spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking in a re-entrant isotropic liquid.
abstract: An achiral double-swallow tailed tetracatenar compound forms a re-entrant isotropic liquid between a bicontinuous cubic phase and a nematic liquid crystalline phase. This isotropic liquid was found to represent a conglomerate of two immiscible chiral liquids. The chirality is retained and eventually becomes uniform at the transition to the cubic I432 phase.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str.2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany. carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dressel
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str.2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany. carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weissflog
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes Str.2, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany. carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de.
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tschierske