Induction and stabilization of liquid crystal order in H-bond complexes containing non-mesogenic species

A new approach to create mesomorphic ordered systems is discussed. It is based on the idea to use noncovalent interactions in the designing of thermotropic structures by modelling lyotropic liquid crystal (LC) when the water interlayer is changed by appropriate solid substances that are able to interact with the polar part of an amphiphilic molecule without any strong change in the intermolecular interactions between the non-polar “tails”.