Supplementary Material (ESI) for Soft Matter This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry 2009 S1 Supporting Information Siloxanes and carbosilanes as new building blocks for T-shaped bolaamphiphilic LC molecules Robert Kieffer, [a] Marko Prehm, [a,b] Karsten Pelz, [b] Ute Baumeister, [b] Feng Liu, [c] Harald Hahn, [d] Heinrich Lang, [d] Goran Ungar,* [c] Carsten Tschierske * [a] [a] Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt Mothes Str. 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany; Fax: +49 345 552 7346; Tel: +49 345 552 5664; E-mail: carsten.tschierske@chemie.uni-halle.de [b] Physical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Mühlpforte, D-06108 Halle, Germany [c] Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S13JD, UK, E-mail: g.ungar@sheffield.ac.uk [d] Department of Chemistry, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, TU Chemnitz, Str. der Nationen 62, D-09111 Chemnitz, Germany