Patent ID: 7651738

Claim:
A method of fabricating supramolecular composite film materials, comprising the steps of forming a layer of lyotropic liquid crystal of supramolecules composed of cyclic organic molecules with conjugated π-systems and substituted polar groups, applying an external orienting force to said layer and subsequent removing a solvent with the resulting formation of a thin crystal film, treating said thin crystal film with a solution of inorganic salts leading to a formation of an insoluble crystalline film of supramolecules of said organic molecules, impregnating said insoluble film with a binding agent interacting with said polar groups with the formation of a filled film, and drying of said filled film leading to the formation of a supramolecular composite film material, wherein said inorganic salts are barium salts, said binding agent is selected from the group consisting of methylol carbamides and their derivatives and said cyclic organic molecules are dyes or dye derivatives.