The bicontinuous double gyroid phase is one of the nature’s most symmetric and complex structures, the electron density map of which was established long ago. By utilizing small-angle x-ray scattering, resonant soft x-ray scattering at the carbon K edge and model-dependent tensor-based scattering theory, we have no...

https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.027801

Bicontinuous and multicontinuous network phases are among nature’s most complex structures in soft matter systems. Here, a chiral bicontinuous tetragonal phase is reported as a new stable liquid crystalline intermediate phase at the transition between two cubic phases, the achiral double gyroid and the chiral tripl...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jacs.2c01511

In this work, we report the relationship between helical pitch of the helical nanofilament (HNF) phase formed by bent-core molecule NOBOW and the concentration of achiral dopants 5CB and octane, using linearly polarized resonant soft X-ray scattering (RSoXS). Utilizing theory-based simulation, which fits well with t...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01525