Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases
We report on the confinement of colloidal liquid crystals in three dimensional chambers with a square footprint. To this end we use colloidal silica rods and exploit their relatively large density difference with respect to the dispersing solvent to study isotropic, nematic and smectic phases confin...
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2016
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| author | Cortes, L Gao, Y Dullens, R Aarts, D |
| author_facet | Cortes, L Gao, Y Dullens, R Aarts, D |
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| description | We report on the confinement of colloidal liquid crystals in three dimensional chambers with a square footprint. To this end we use colloidal silica rods and exploit their relatively large density difference with respect to the dispersing solvent to study isotropic, nematic and smectic phases confined into a single chamber. Combining laser scanning confocal microscopy and soft-lithography techniques enables us to characterize the configurations down to the single particle level. We will focus on the smectic phase and compare to recent theories and simulations. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f0911b77-06c0-44fc-a9db-a909ee924de32022-03-27T11:49:00ZColloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phasesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f0911b77-06c0-44fc-a9db-a909ee924de3Symplectic Elements at OxfordIOP Publishing2016Cortes, LGao, YDullens, RAarts, DWe report on the confinement of colloidal liquid crystals in three dimensional chambers with a square footprint. To this end we use colloidal silica rods and exploit their relatively large density difference with respect to the dispersing solvent to study isotropic, nematic and smectic phases confined into a single chamber. Combining laser scanning confocal microscopy and soft-lithography techniques enables us to characterize the configurations down to the single particle level. We will focus on the smectic phase and compare to recent theories and simulations. |
| spellingShingle | Cortes, L Gao, Y Dullens, R Aarts, D Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
| title | Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
| title_full | Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
| title_fullStr | Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
| title_short | Colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement: isotropic, nematic and smectic phases |
| title_sort | colloidal liquid crystals in square confinement isotropic nematic and smectic phases |
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