Liquid-Crystal Templates for Nanostructured Metals

摘要

A rapidly developing new trend in materials science is the transfer of structure from surfactant aggregates to inorganic solids. In water, surfactants aggregate into micelles or, at higher concentrations, into lyotropic liquid-crystalline phases. Despite their beauty, lyotropic mesophases have so far not been utilized for their structure, but only for their properties (for example in shampoos), because these ordered aggregates readily undergo phase changes as a result of dynamic exchange processes.