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Chem Commun (Camb)
; 53(99): 13217-13220, 2017 Dec 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29171595
ABSTRACT
We report on the phase behaviour of a wedge-shaped mesogen, which can exist in two different states at room temperature, a stable columnar and a metastable cubic gyroid phase. The latter reveals exceptional stability and remarkable water sorption capacity accounted for by the locally-ordered peripheral alkyl chains.