Carbohydrate Liquid Crystals
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 110 (1-4) , 221-237
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00268948408074507
Abstract
Certain alkyl l-O and l-S glycosides with hydrocarbon chain lengths greater than hexyl have been shown to form thermotropic liquid crystals at temperatures between 60 and 100[ddot]C. These are believed to be members of a large class of alkyl and acyl carbohydrate mesogens which, apart from their intrinsic value as potentially useful solid-state materials, could provide a variety of structurally accessible model systems for studying the phase transitions in the cell-membrane glycolipids.Keywords
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