1 Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 2, 06120 Halle, Germany. carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de.
2 State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China. feng.liu@xjtu.edu.cn.
3 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK. g.ungar@sheffield.ac.uk.
4 State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China. feng.liu@xjtu.edu.cn and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK. g.ungar@sheffield.ac.uk.
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.