Thermo-sensitive discotic colloidal liquid crystals Academic Article

abstract

• We fabricated for the first time thermo-sensitive discotic liquid crystals by grafting poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) onto zirconium phosphate (ZrP) platelets using pre-irradiated polymerization. The I-N transition was investigated by adjusting the temperature for a single set of samples. We found that soft disks self-assemble into nematic liquid crystals in a wider thickness-over-diameter ratio than do hard disks.

author list (cited authors)

• Wang, X., Zhao, D. i., Diaz, A., Medina, I., Wang, H., & Cheng, Z.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Wang, Xuezhen||Zhao, Di||Diaz, Agustin||Nava Medina, Ilse B||Wang, Huiliang||Cheng, Zhengdong

publication date

• October 2014

published in

• SOFT MATTER  Journal

keywords

• 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)

PubMed Central ID

• 25175847

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1039/c4sm00797b

start page

• 7692

end page

• 7695

volume

• 10

issue

• 39