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Chem. Commun., 2009, 7560 - 7562, DOI: 10.1039/b912472a


Anisotropic ionic conductivities in lyotropic supramolecular liquid crystals

Youju Huang, Yuanhua Cong, Junjun Li, Daoliang Wang, Jingtuo Zhang, Lu Xu, Weili Li, Liangbin Li, Guoqiang Pan and Chuanlu Yang


The designed aromatic amide discotic molecule with sulfonic acid groups at its periphery exhibits a hexagonal supramolecular columnar liquid crystalline phase, which leads to the achievement of anisotropic ionic conductivity through macroscopically aligning the ionic channels.

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