New structural model of a chiral cubic liquid crystalline phase

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Publication Date 2020-05-19
DOI 10.1039/D0CP01579B
Impact Factor 3.676
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Joanna Matraszek, Martin Vogrin, Damian Pociecha, Ewa Gorecka


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Abstract

We have studied properties of novel thermotropic mesogenic materials that exhibit both an achiral double gyroid (Iad symmetry) and chiral cubic phase (previously assigned the Imm symmetry). We argue that in the chiral cubic phase molecules form micelles and channels arranged into continuously interconnected hexagons. From the X-ray diffraction experiment supported by modelling, exact positions of hexagons and their connections were deduced and showed to be embedded on a WP (degenerated Neovius) minimal primitive surface. The elastic energy of such a structure is close to the one of the double gyroid phase, which is in agreement with a very low enthalpy change observed at the phase transition. We also argue that the chirality of the phase is related to the lack of mirror symmetry of non-flat hexagons accompanied by an alternating inclination of molecules in the neighbouring segments of hexagon; the chirality of individual hexagon is amplified on the whole hexagon network by steric effects.

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