ArticlePhysical review letters2013
Nematic-field-driven positioning of particles in liquid crystal droplets.
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- Nucleation and shape dynamics of model nematic tactoids around adhesive colloids.The Journal of chemical physics · 2020Article
- Nanoparticle-laden droplets of liquid crystals: Interactive morphogenesis and dynamic assembly.Science advances · 2019Article
- Phase Transition-Driven Nanoparticle Assembly in Liquid Crystal Droplets.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Colloidal cholesteric liquid crystal in spherical confinement.Nature communications · 2016Article
- Controlled deformation of vesicles by flexible structured media.Science advances · 2016Article
- Design of Responsive and Active (Soft) Materials Using Liquid Crystals.Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering · 2016Review
- Nanoparticle self-assembly at the interface of liquid crystal droplets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Surfactant-induced ordering and wetting transitions of droplets of thermotropic liquid crystals "caged" inside partially filled polymeric capsules.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2014Article
- Organized assemblies of colloids formed at the poles of micrometer-sized droplets of liquid crystal.Soft matter · 2014Article
- Reversible Switching of Liquid Crystalline Order Permits Synthesis of Homogeneous Populations of Dipolar Patchy Microparticles.Advanced functional materials · 2014Article
- Using liquid crystals to reveal how mechanical anisotropy changes interfacial behaviors of motile bacteria.Biophysical journal · 2014Article
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Abstract
Common nematic oils, such as 5CB, experience planar anchoring at aqueous interfaces. When these oils are emulsified, this anchoring preference and the resulting topological constraints lead to the formation of droplets that exhibit one or two point defects within the nematic phase. Here, we explore the interactions of adsorbed particles at the aqueous interface through a combination of experiments and coarse-grained modeling, and demonstrate that surface-active particles, driven by elastic forces in the droplet, readily localize to these defect regions in a programmable manner. When droplets include two nanoparticles, these preferentially segregate to the two poles, thereby forming highly regular dipolar structures that could serve for hierarchical assembly of functional structures. Addition of sufficient concentrations of surfactant changes the interior morphology of the droplet, but pins defects to the interface, resulting in aggregation of the two particles.
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