Abstract
An amazing phenomenon of the relative magnitude of modulus of two liquid crystal (LC) gels is found inverted under/above their phase transition temperature TLC-iso, which is further proved to be caused by their diverse morphology flexibility. By testing the polarity of two LCs, we discovered that gelator POSS-G1-Boc self-assemble into more flexible structures in a relative low polar LC, while more rigid ones are formed in higher polar LC. Hence we established a fitting function to connect morphology flexibility with solvent polarity, which can even be generalized to a number of common solvents. Experimental observations and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations revealed that solvent polarity is just like the special "morse code", and each "morse code" corresponding to a specific morpholsogy flexibility.
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