Publications by authors named "Ruoyin Jia"
Thermotropic "Plumber's Nightmare"-A Tight Liquid Organic Double Framework.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
November 2024
Gyroid, double diamond and the body-centred "Plumber's nightmare" are the three most common bicontinuous cubic phases in lyotropic liquid crystals and block copolymers. While the first two are also present in solvent-free thermotropics, the latter had never been found. Containing six-fold junctions, it was unlikely to form in the more common phases with rod-like cores normal to the network columns, where a maximum of four branches can join at a junction.
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- - Highly ordered network-nanostructured polymers have great potential for various applications, but their use is limited due to accessibility issues.
- - Researchers utilized commercial Pluronic surfactants to modify these polymers, enabling the creation of double-gyroid mesophases through a method called lyotropic self-assembly, which were then solidified using photoinduced cross-linking.
- - The resulting polymers showed well-ordered structures confirmed by advanced imaging techniques, and by adjusting the cross-linking process, the mechanical properties were improved while retaining their unique 3-D gyroid characteristics, leading to better ionic conductivity than disordered structures.