Design and Preparation of Nematic Colloidal Particles

Senyuk, Bohdan; Meng, Cuiling; Smalyukh, Ivan I.

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00611

Design and Preparation of Nematic Colloidal Particles

Journal Article · 22 July 2022 · Langmuir

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00611· OSTI ID:1978138

Senyuk, Bohdan ^[1]; Meng, Cuiling ^[1]; ^[2]

Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States; Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States; Soft Materials Research Center and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States; Chemical Physics Program, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States

Not provided.

Research Organization:: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0010305; SC0019293

OSTI ID:: 1978138

Journal Information:: Langmuir, Vol. 38, Issue 30; ISSN 0743-7463

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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Elastomeric nematic colloids, colloidal crystals and microstructures with complex topology Yuan, Ye; Keller, Patrick; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Soft Matter, Vol. 17, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM02135K	journal	January 2021
Interplay of Electrostatic Dipoles and Monopoles with Elastic Interactions in Nematic Liquid Crystal Nanocolloids Fleury, Blaise; Senyuk, Bohdan; Tasinkevych, Mykola Nano Letters, Vol. 20, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02087	journal	October 2020
Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers Yuan, Ye; Tasinkevych, Mykola; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Nature Communications, Vol. 11, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14031-2	journal	January 2020
Colloidal Surfaces with Boundaries, Apex Boojums, and Nested Elastic Self-Assembly of Nematic Colloids Park, Sungoh; Liu, Qingkun; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 117, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.277801	journal	December 2016
Nonsingular defects and self-assembly of colloidal particles in cholesteric liquid crystals Trivedi, Rahul P.; Tasinkevych, Mykola; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Physical Review E, Vol. 94, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.062703	journal	December 2016
Edge pinning and transformation of defect lines induced by faceted colloidal rings in nematic liquid crystals Senyuk, Bohdan; Liu, Qingkun; Yuan, Ye Physical Review E, Vol. 93, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.93.062704	journal	June 2016
Topology and self-assembly of defect-colloidal superstructure in confined chiral nematic liquid crystals Pandey, M. B.; Ackerman, P. J.; Burkart, A. Physical Review E, Vol. 91, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.012501	journal	January 2015
Topological Switching and Orbiting Dynamics of Colloidal Spheres Dressed with Chiral Nematic Solitons Porenta, T.; Čopar, S.; Ackerman, P. J. Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep07337	journal	December 2014
Periodic dynamics, localization metastability, and elastic interaction of colloidal particles with confining surfaces and helicoidal structure of cholesteric liquid crystals Varney, Michael C. M.; Zhang, Qiaoxuan; Tasinkevych, Mykola Physical Review E, Vol. 90, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.90.062502	journal	December 2014
Optical manipulation of shape-morphing elastomeric liquid crystal microparticles doped with gold nanocrystals Sun, Yaoran; Evans, Julian S.; Lee, Taewoo Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 24 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4729143	journal	June 2012
Reconfigurable interactions and three-dimensional patterning of colloidal particles and defects in lamellar soft media Trivedi, R. P.; Klevets, I. I.; Senyuk, B. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119118109	journal	March 2012
Shape-Dependent Oriented Trapping and Scaffolding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles by Topological Defects for Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dimers in Liquid Crystals Senyuk, Bohdan; Evans, Julian S.; Ackerman, Paul J. Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1021/nl204030t	journal	January 2012
Two-Dimensional Nematic Colloidal Crystals Self-Assembled by Topological Defects Musevic, I. Science, Vol. 313, Issue 5789 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1129660	journal	August 2006
Alignment of high-aspect ratio colloidal gold nanoplatelets in nematic liquid crystals Evans, Julian S.; Beier, Corinne N.; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 110, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3620550	journal	August 2011
Interaction between two spherical particles in a nematic liquid crystal Fukuda, Jun-ichi; Stark, Holger; Yoneya, Makoto Physical Review E, Vol. 69, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.69.041706	journal	April 2004
Rotational and translational diffusion of anisotropic gold nanoparticles in liquid crystals controlled by varying surface anchoring Senyuk, Bohdan; Glugla, David; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Physical Review E, Vol. 88, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.062507	journal	December 2013
Static three-dimensional topological solitons in fluid chiral ferromagnets and colloids Ackerman, Paul J.; Smalyukh, Ivan I. Nature Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4826	journal	December 2016
Biaxial ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids Liu, Qingkun; Ackerman, Paul J.; Lubensky, Tom C. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113, Issue 38 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601235113	journal	September 2016
Optical manipulation of colloids and defect structures in anisotropic liquid crystal fluids Trivedi, R. P.; Engström, D.; Smalyukh, I. I. Journal of Optics, Vol. 13, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/13/4/044001	journal	March 2011
Particle size effects on nanocolloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals Ryzhkova, A. V.; Muševič, I. Physical Review E, Vol. 87, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.032501	journal	March 2013
Ferromagnetic Switching of Knotted Vector Fields in Liquid Crystal Colloids Zhang, Qiaoxuan; Ackerman, Paul J.; Liu, Qingkun Physical Review Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.097802	journal	August 2015
Interparticle force in nematic colloids: Comparison between experiment and theory Kishita, Takahiro; Kondo, Noboru; Takahashi, Kenji Physical Review E, Vol. 84, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.84.021704	journal	August 2011
Liquid Crystal Colloids Muševič, Igor Soft and Biological Matter https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54916-3	book	January 2017
Measuring Electric-Field-Induced Dipole Moments of Metal-Dielectric Janus Particles in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Sahu, Dinesh Kumar; Dhara, Surajit Physical Review Applied, Vol. 14, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.034004	journal	September 2020
Electric field driven controllable motility of metal-dielectric Janus particles with boojum defects in thin films of a nematic liquid crystal Sahu, Dinesh Kumar; Dhara, Surajit Physics of Fluids, Vol. 33, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0060078	journal	August 2021

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