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ArticleScience advances2017

Structural transitions and guest/host complexing of liquid crystal helical nanofilaments induced by nanoconfinement.

Hanim Kim, Seong Ho Ryu, Michael Tuchband, Tae Joo Shin, Eva Korblova, David M Walba, Noel A Clark, Dong Ki Yoon

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Article in Science advances, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors.

Hanim KimGraduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.
Seong Ho RyuGraduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.
Michael TuchbandDepartment of Physics and Soft Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6560-1913
Tae Joo ShinUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) Central Research Facilities & School of Natural Science, UNIST, Ulsan 689-798, Republic of Korea.
Eva KorblovaDepartment of Chemistry and Soft Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
David M WalbaDepartment of Chemistry and Soft Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4478-3858
Noel A ClarkDepartment of Physics and Soft Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
Dong Ki YoonGraduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A lamellar liquid crystal (LC) phase of certain bent-core mesogenic molecules can be grown in a manner that generates a single chiral helical nanofilament in each of the cylindrical nanopores of an anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane. By introducing guest molecules into the resulting composite chiral nanochannels, we explore the structures and functionality of the ordered guest/host LC complex, verifying the smectic-like positional order of the fluidic nematic LC phase, which is obtained by the combination of the LC organization and the nanoporous AAO superstructure. The guest nematic LC 4'-

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Guest-host complexinghelical nanofilament phasenanoconfinementnano-segregationnematic liquid crystal phaseSelf-assembly

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PMCPMC5302869

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