Nanoporous, Bicontinuous Cubic Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Networks via Polymerizable Gemini Ammonium Surfactants

摘要

Cross-linked lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) assemblies are a class of ordered, nanoporous polymer materials that have been shown to be useful for a number of important applications.' These polymer materials are formed by the in situ cross-linking of reactive amphiphiles (i.e., surfactants) that self-organize in water (or other polar solvents) into microphase-separated, liquid-crystalline assemblies containing periodic, nanometer-scale, aqueous regions/ pores filled with mobile water molecules.