The analogy of block copolymer micro-segregation as a low-molecular weight nano-structured liquid crystal (LC) was tested with recently found columnar and cubic phase-forming LC molecules.
We found that the copolymer analogy principle also works well for new micellar cubic phase-forming molecules.
For bicontinuous cubic phase-forming BABH-n compounds, we found that cover much broader core fraction range than that predicted by the copolymer analogy.
