Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement
We confine a colloidal liquid crystal between parallel plates separated down to several times the rod length. By connecting the system to a reservoir we effectively create a grand canonical system, in which the liquid crystal displays an isotropic phase in the reservoir, but upon strong confinement...
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| author | Klop, KE Dullens, RPA Lettinga, MP Egorov, SA Aarts, DGA |
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| description | We confine a colloidal liquid crystal between parallel plates separated down to several times the rod length. By connecting the system to a reservoir we effectively create a grand canonical system, in which the liquid crystal displays an isotropic phase in the reservoir, but upon strong confinement becomes nematic between the parallel plates. This capillary nematisation transition can be followed down to the single particle level by means of laser scanning confocal microscopy. We compare the experimental findings to density functional theories (DFTs), within the Zwanzig model as well as a more advanced DFT, in which the effect of rod flexibility is taken into account. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:286baf10-b343-4000-b2d9-5dec6d80afd32022-03-26T12:12:52ZCapillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinementJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:286baf10-b343-4000-b2d9-5dec6d80afd3Symplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2018Klop, KEDullens, RPALettinga, MPEgorov, SAAarts, DGAWe confine a colloidal liquid crystal between parallel plates separated down to several times the rod length. By connecting the system to a reservoir we effectively create a grand canonical system, in which the liquid crystal displays an isotropic phase in the reservoir, but upon strong confinement becomes nematic between the parallel plates. This capillary nematisation transition can be followed down to the single particle level by means of laser scanning confocal microscopy. We compare the experimental findings to density functional theories (DFTs), within the Zwanzig model as well as a more advanced DFT, in which the effect of rod flexibility is taken into account. |
| spellingShingle | Klop, KE Dullens, RPA Lettinga, MP Egorov, SA Aarts, DGA Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
| title | Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
| title_full | Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
| title_fullStr | Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
| title_full_unstemmed | Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
| title_short | Capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
| title_sort | capillary nematisation of colloidal rods in confinement |
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