A self-assembled liquid crystal honeycomb of highly stretched (3-1-1)-hexagons.
Alexander ScholteSebastian HaucheMatthias WagnerMarko PrehmSilvio PoppeChanglong ChenFeng LiuXiang-Bing ZengGoran UngarCarsten TschierskePublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2019)
A new liquid crystalline honeycomb phase is reported, containing highly stretched giant hexagonal cells with two opposing walls spanned by three consecutive end-to-end H-bonded rods, the (3-1-1) hexagons.