Directed self-assembly into low-density colloidal liquid crystal phases
Alignment of anisometric particles into liquid crystals (LCs) often results from an entropic competition between their rotational and translational degrees of freedom at dense packings. Here we show that by selectively functionalizing the heads of colloidal rods with magnetic nanoparticles this tend...
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American Physical Society
2018
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