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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2024

Supertwisted Chiral Gyroid Mesophase in Chiral Rod-Like Compounds.

Yan Wang, Shu-Gui Yang, Ya-Xin Li, Yu Cao, Feng Liu, Xiang-Bing Zeng, Liliana Cseh, Goran Ungar

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Unraveling hidden symmetry breaking in racemic compounds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Geometry Controls Confined Water Dynamics in Lipidic Mesophases.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  4. Gyroid Labyrinth of Supertwisted Double Helices in a Liquid Crystal Polymer.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  6. Supertwisted Chiral Gyroid Mesophase in Chiral Rod-Like Compounds.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Yan WangState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, China.
Shu-Gui YangState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, China.
Ya-Xin LiSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University of Technology, 450001, Zhengzhou, China.
Yu CaoState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, China.
Feng LiuState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, China.
Xiang-Bing ZengDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4896-8080
Liliana CsehRomanian Academy, Coriolan Dragulescu Institute of Chemistry, 300223, Timisoara, Romania.
Goran UngarState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, Xi'an, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9743-2656
Xi'an Jiaotong University · CNHenan University of Technology · CNRomanian Academy · ROUniversity of Sheffield · GB

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP-P002250National Natural Science Foundation of Chinas 92156013, 92356306Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province 232300421375UEFISCDI Romania PCE-2016-0720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the intriguing bicontinuous self-assembled structures, the gyroid cubic is the most ubiquitous. It is found in block and star polymers, surfactants with or without solvent, in thermotropic liquid crystals with end- or side-chains, and in biosystems providing structural color and modelling cell mitosis. It contains two interpenetrating networks of opposite chirality and is thus achiral if, as usual, the content of the two nets is the same. However, we now find that this is not the case for strongly chiral compounds. While achiral molecules follow the opposite twists of nets 1 and 2, molecules with a chiral center in their rod-like core fail to follow the 70° twist between junctions in net 2 and instead wind against it by -110° to still match the junction orientation. The metastable chiral gyroid is a high-entropy high-heat-capacity mesophase. The homochirality of its nets makes the CD signal of the thienofluorenone compounds close to that in the stable I23 phase with 3 isochiral nets.

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circular dichroismdepolarized fluorescenceLiquid crystalspolycatenarthienofluorenone

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PMID38566540
PMCPMC11497307
OpenAlexW4393859590

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