TY - JOUR A1 - Grunwald, M. A. A1 - Hagenlocher, S. E. A1 - Turkanovic, L. A1 - Bauch, S. M. A1 - Wachsmann, S. B. A1 - Altevogt, L. A. A1 - Ebert, M. A1 - Knöller, J. A. A1 - Raab, A. R. A1 - Schulz, F. A1 - Kolmangadi, Mohamed A. A1 - Zens, A. A1 - Huber, P. A1 - Schönhals, Andreas A1 - Bilitiewski, U. A1 - Laschat, S. T1 - Does thermotropic liquid crystalline self-assembly control biological activity in amphiphilic amino acids? – tyrosine ILCs as a case study N2 - Amphiphilic amino acids represent promising scaffolds for biologically active soft matter. In order to understand the bulk self-assembly of amphiphilic amino acids into thermotropic liquid crystalline phases and their biological properties a series of tyrosine ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) was synthesized, carrying a benzoate unit with 0–3 alkoxy chains at the tyrosine unit and a cationic guanidinium head group. Investigation of the mesomorphic properties by polarizing optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (WAXS, SAXS) revealed smectic A bilayers (SmAd) for ILCs with 4-alkoxy- and 3,4-dialkoxybenzoates, whereas ILCs with 3,4,5-trisalkoxybenzoates showed hexagonal columnar mesophases (Colh ), while different counterions had only a minor influence. Dielectric measurements revealed a slightly higher dipole moment of non-mesomorphic tyrosine-benzoates as compared to their mesomorphic counterparts. The absence of lipophilic side chains on the benzoate unit was important for the biological activity. Thus, non-mesomorphic tyrosine benzoates and crown ether benzoates devoid of additional side chains at the benzoate unit displayed the highest cytotoxicities (against L929 mouse fibroblast cell line) and antimicrobial activity (against Escherichia coli DTolC and Staphylococcus aureus) and promising selectivity ratio in favour of antimicrobial activity. KW - Liquid Crystals PY - 2023 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cp00485f SN - 1463-9076 VL - 25 IS - 26 SP - 17639 EP - 17656 PB - RCS AN - OPUS4-57796 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Starke, K. A1 - Ristau, D. A1 - Martin, Sven A1 - Hertwig, Andreas A1 - Krüger, Jörg A1 - Allenspacher, P. A1 - Riede, W. A1 - Meister, S. A1 - Theiss, C. A1 - Sabbah, A. A1 - Rudolph, W. A1 - Raab, V. A1 - Grigonis, R. A1 - Rakickas, T. A1 - Sirutkaitis, V. ED - Exarhos, G. J. T1 - Results of a round-robin experiment in multiple-pulse LIDT measurement with ultrashort pulses T2 - 35th Annual Boulder Damage Symposium ; 35th Annual Symposium on Optical Materials for High-Power Lasers CY - Boulder, CO, USA DA - 2003-09-22 KW - Multiple-pulse damage KW - ISO 11254-2 KW - S on 1-LIDT KW - Round-robin experiment KW - CHOCLAB PY - 2004 SN - 0-8194-5163-0 DO - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.525135 SN - 0038-7355 N1 - Serientitel: Proceedings of SPIE – Series title: Proceedings of SPIE IS - 5273 SP - 388 EP - 395 PB - SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering CY - Bellingham, Wash. AN - OPUS4-4948 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -