Design of Functional Materials based on Liquid Crystalline Droplets.
Design of Functional Materials based on Liquid Crystalline Droplets.
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DOI:
10.1021/cm4025028
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发表时间:
2014-01-14
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Abbott, Nicholas L.
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作者:
Miller, Daniel S.;Wang, Xiaoguang;Abbott, Nicholas L.
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This brief perspective focuses on recent advances in the design of functional soft materials that are based on confinement of low molecular weight liquid crystals (LCs) within micrometer-sized droplets. While the ordering of LCs within micrometer-sized domains has been explored extensively in polymer-dispersed LC materials, recent studies performed with LC domains with precisely defined size and interfacial chemistry have unmasked observations of confinement-induced ordering of LCs that do not follow previously reported theoretical predictions. These new findings, which are enabled in part by advances in the preparation of LCs encapsulated in polymeric shells, are opening up new opportunities for the design of soft responsive materials based on surface-induced ordering transitions. These materials are also providing new insights into the self-assembly of biomolecular and colloidal species at defects formed by LCs confined to micrometer-sized domains. The studies presented in this perspective serve additionally to highlight gaps in knowledge regarding the ordering of LCs in confined systems.
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DOI:
10.1021/la3024293
发表时间:
2012-09-04
期刊:
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
影响因子:
--
作者:
Carlton RJ;Ma CD;Gupta JK;Abbott NL
通讯作者:
Abbott NL
影响因子:
4
作者:
CRAIGHEAD, HG;CHENG, J;HACKWOOD, S
通讯作者:
HACKWOOD, S
影响因子:
0.7
作者:
DRZAIC, P
通讯作者:
DRZAIC, P
影响因子:
3.9
作者:
Brake, JM;Daschner, MK;Abbott, NL
通讯作者:
Abbott, NL
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
BERGGREN, E;ZANNONI, C;SEMERIA, F
通讯作者:
SEMERIA, F