An ordered network polymer of bicontinuous cubic structure resulting from photo-polymerization of a coil-rod-coil molecule self-assembly

摘要

An unusual strategy to generate an ordered network polymer from the self-assembly of reactive coil-rod-coil molecules was successfully achieved. The bicontinuous cubic structure of molecule4 was maintained by cross-linking the photo-polymerization self-assembly of4 in the liquid crystalline state. The result suggests that an approach to control a reactive supramolecular molecule structure and conversion to a polymer allows a novel, highly ordered 3-D nanostructural polymer to be produced.