journal article·2025-10Open access

A Self‐assembled Fluid Honeycomb of Nonsymmetric Hexagons Formed by Nine Molecules in the Circumference

Christian Anders, Silvio Poppe, Yu Cao, Feng Liu, Carsten Tschierske

Small· Volume 21· Issue 40

Abstract

Abstract Periodic tessellations of the 2D plane by nonsymmetric polygons are of particular interest for both the 2D Kelvin problem, which is critical to system linearity and elasticity, and reticular chemistry to diverse the topological varieties. Here, a new liquid crystalline honeycomb phase, representing a monohedral tiling by nonsymmetric hexagonal cells resulting from the soft self‐assembly of nine consecutive end‐to‐end hydrogen‐bonded p ‐terphenyl rods is reported. The new phase structure is characterized by POM, DSC as well as SAXS, with which the electron density map is reconstructed and discussed. The hexagonal cells are chiral in 2D space and give rise to a nano‐scale honeycomb resembling a p 2 gg tiling pattern. The findings not only pave the way to novel geometric design of reticular self‐assembled systems, but also provide nonsymmetric supramolecular motifs for 2D chiral science.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials · Covalent Organic Framework Applications · Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

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Affiliations

Institute of Chemistry Martin Luther University Halle‐Wittenberg Kurt‐Mothes‐Straße 2 06120 Halle Germany

Shannxi International Research Center for Soft Matter State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049 P. R. China

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China · China Postdoctoral Science Foundation · Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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