Cross-linked normal hexagonal and bicontinuous cubic assemblies via polymerizable gemini amphiphiles

BA Pindzola, J Jin, DL Gin

Index: Pindzola, Brad A.; Jin, Jizhu; Gin, Douglas L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2003 , vol. 125, # 10 p. 2940 - 2949

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Citation Number: 91

Abstract

The synthesis and lyotropic liquid-crystalline (LLC) phase behavior of a homologous series of intrinsically cross-linkable gemini surfactants are described. These novel bis (alkyl-1, 3- diene)-based phosphonium gemini amphiphiles exhibit “normal” hexagonal (HI), Type I bicontinuous cubic (QI), and lamellar (Lα) phases in water, and can be photocross-linked with retention of phase architecture in each case. On the basis of their locations on the ...