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Science 10 August 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4406, pp. 607 - 608
DOI: 10.1126/science.205.4406.607
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Changed Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Structure Due to Polymerization of the Amphiphilic Component

STIG E. FRIBERG 1, RAJu THUNDATHIL 1, and JAMES O. STOFFER 1

1 Chemistry Department, University of Missouri, Rolla 65401

Optical patterns in polarized light and x-ray reflections in the low-angle region were used to detect a shift from one liquid crystalline structure to another during polymerization. The polymerization took place in a Iotropic liquid crystal of water and sodium undecenoate, with a structure consisting of cylinders in a two-dimensional hexagonal close packing. After polymerization, a lamellar liquid crystalline structure was obtained.

Submitted on January 19, 1979
Revised on April 9, 1979

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