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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Stable and Oriented Liquid Crystal Droplets Stabilized by Imidazolium Ionic Liquids.

Efthymia Ramou, Guilherme Rebordão, Susana I C J Palma, Ana C A Roque

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Efthymia RamouAssociate Laboratory i4HB-Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Guilherme RebordãoAssociate Laboratory i4HB-Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Susana I C J PalmaAssociate Laboratory i4HB-Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-1851-8110
Ana C A RoqueAssociate Laboratory i4HB-Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4586-3024
Unidade em Ciências Biomoleculares Aplicadas

Funding

European Research Council 639123European Research Council SCENT-ERC-2014-STG-639123(2015-2022)Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia LA/P/0140/2020Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDB/04378/2020Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDP/04378/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid crystals represent a fascinating intermediate state of matter, with dynamic yet organized molecular features and untapped opportunities in sensing. Several works report the use of liquid crystal droplets formed by microfluidics and stabilized by surfactants such as sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). In this work, we explore, for the first time, the potential of surface-active ionic liquids of the imidazolium family as surfactants to generate in high yield, stable and oriented liquid crystal droplets. Our results show that [C

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imidazolium ionic liquidsliquid crystal dropletsmicrofluidics

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PMID34641588
PMCPMC8512111
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