3D Continuous Water Nanosheet as a Gyroid Minimal Surface Formed by Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Zwitterions
作者:Takahiro Ichikawa、Takashi Kato、Hiroyuki Ohno
DOI:10.1021/ja304124w
日期:2012.7.18
Co-organization of amphiphilic zwitterions and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide led to the formation of bicontinuous cubic liquid-crystalline structures having 3D continuous hydrophilic gyroid minimal surface. The gyroid surface, incorporating a small amount of water, provided extremely thin but macroscopically continuous water nanosheet with a thickness of approximately 5 angstrom. The water nanosheet functioned as alignment free proton conduction pathway.