Discotic liquid crystals are potential anisotropic materials for electronic and optical applications. We showed that composite formation of calamitic liquid crystals and self-assembling molecules led to the fabrication of a novel class of anisotropic gels exhibiting response to electric fields and heterogeneous anisotropic organization. Here we report the composite formation of discotic liquid crystals and hydrogen-bonded molecules and the different structural features of the discotic liquid-crystalline gels from the anisotropic gels of calamitif liquid crystals.
