Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 40, Issue 2, 329(2025)

Polymeric materials with bicontinuous nanochannels via polymerizable gyroid liquid crystals

Xunda FENG*
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  • State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
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    (a) Three-dimensional model of the Gyroid structure. The red color represents the enantiomeric skeletons, and the light gray part is TPMS; (b) Saddle surfaces with negative Gaussian curvature in the Gyroid structure, similar to Pringles chips; (c) Type 1 and type 2 Gyroid based on the spatial distribution characteristics of the water and the oil phases.
    Critical packing parameter (CPP) and its relationship with the self-assembled morphologies[23]
    (a) Photo of viscous Gyroid liquid crystals; (b) “Dark” image of Gyroid liquid crystals with no bright optical texture under polarized light; (c) Photo of the SAXS beamline of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility used to study Gyroid liquid crystals; (d) SAXS diffraction pattern showing typical diffraction rings; (e) TEM observation of microtomed Gyroid liquid crystals after photocuring.
    (a) Molecular structure of the polymerizable amphiphilic molecule (Diene-GZI); (b) Schematic illustration of the molecular arrangement within the Gyroid skeleton structure.
    Molecular structures and schematic illustrations of polymerizable zwitterionic surfactants (SB11-1MA) (a) and Pluronic surfactants (P105-DA) (b); (c) Gyroid structures formed by self-assembly. (d) Li+ transport process within the Gyroid structure.
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    Xunda FENG. Polymeric materials with bicontinuous nanochannels via polymerizable gyroid liquid crystals[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2025, 40(2): 329

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    Paper Information

    Category: Soft Matter Self-assembly

    Received: Aug. 31, 2024

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 28, 2025

    The Author Email: Xunda FENG (xunda.feng@dhu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2024-0265

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