Close-packed polybutylcarbosilane dendrimers of higher generations.

Bakirov, Artem V; Tatarinova, Elena A; Milenin, Sergei A; Shcherbina, Maxim A; Muzafarov, Aziz M; Chvalun, Sergey N · Soft Matter · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Variation of generation number strongly affects the type of ordering found for polybutylcarbosilane dendrimers: G5 dendrimers are liquid-like, G6 are cubic liquid crystals and G7/G8 are disordered close-packed. It was revealed that G6 dendrimers are highly likely to form Im3[combining macron]m lattice structures with the parameter a = 5.15 nm, and a domain size that exceeds 100 nm.