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Macroscopically Ordered Polymer/CaCO 3 Hybrids Prepared by Using a Liquid‐Crystalline Template
Author(s) -
Nishimura Tatsuya,
Ito Takahiro,
Yamamoto Yuya,
Yoshio Masafumi,
Kato Takashi
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200705062
Subject(s) - polymer , materials science , liquid crystalline , hybrid , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , composite material , engineering , biology , botany
Unidirectionally aligned hybrids consisting of chitin and calcite were obtained by template crystallization of CaCO 3 in an ordered chitin film with nematic liquid‐crystalline molecular alignment. The picture shows the resulting chitin matrix containing CaCO 3 rods, schematically and in the form of an optical micrograph, and the selected‐area electron diffraction pattern of a thin section of a single rod.