Induction of bicontinuous cubic liquid-crystalline assemblies for polymerizable amphiphiles via tailor-made design of ionic liquids

Hiroaki Takeuchi; Takahiro Ichikawa; Masafumi Yoshio; Takashi Kato; Hiroyuki Ohno

doi:10.1039/c6cc07571a

Induction of bicontinuous cubic liquid-crystalline assemblies for polymerizable amphiphiles via tailor-made design of ionic liquids

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Nov 24;52(96):13861-13864. doi: 10.1039/c6cc07571a.

Authors

Hiroaki Takeuchi¹, Takahiro Ichikawa², Masafumi Yoshio³, Takashi Kato³, Hiroyuki Ohno¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan. t-ichi@cc.tuat.ac.jp ohnoh@cc.tuat.ac.jp and Functional IL Laboratories, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Japan.
² Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Nakacho, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan. t-ichi@cc.tuat.ac.jp ohnoh@cc.tuat.ac.jp and Functional IL Laboratories, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Koganei, Japan and PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi 332-0012, Japan.
³ Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.

PMID: 27841379
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc07571a

Abstract

The lyotropic liquid-crystalline behavior of polymerizable amphiphiles has been tuned by using tailor-made ionic liquids as solvents so as to induce the formation of bicontinuous cubic assemblies having 3D interconnected nanochannels. The fixation of the amphiphilic assemblies has been successfully achieved by in situ photopolymerization.