Hexadecapolar Colloids
Abstract
Outermost occupied electron shells of chemical elements can have symmetries resembling that of monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles and octupoles corresponding to filled s-, p-, d- and forbitals. Theoretically, elements with hexadecapolar outer shells could also exist, but none of the known elements have filled g-orbitals. On the other hand, the research paradigm of ‘colloidal atoms’ displays complexity of particle behaviour exceeding that of atomic counterparts, which is driven by DNA functionalization, geometric shape and topology and weak external stimuli. We describe elastic hexadecapoles formed by polymer microspheres dispersed in a liquid crystal, a nematic fluid of orientationally ordered molecular rods. Because of conically degenerate boundary conditions, the solid microspheres locally perturb the alignment of the nematic host, inducing hexadecapolar distortions that drive anisotropic colloidal interactions. We uncover physical underpinnings of formation of colloidal elastic hexadecapoles and report the ensuing bonding inaccessible to elastic dipoles, quadrupoles and other nematic colloids studied previously.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine); Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
- Institute of Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1240073
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-65963
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Related Information: Nature Communications; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; colloidal elastic hexadecapoles; bonding; elastic dipoles; quadrupoles; nematic colloids
Citation Formats
Senyuk, Bohdan, Puls, Owen, Tovkach, Oleh M., Chernyshuk, Stanislav B., and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Hexadecapolar Colloids. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms10659.
Senyuk, Bohdan, Puls, Owen, Tovkach, Oleh M., Chernyshuk, Stanislav B., & Smalyukh, Ivan I. Hexadecapolar Colloids. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10659
Senyuk, Bohdan, Puls, Owen, Tovkach, Oleh M., Chernyshuk, Stanislav B., and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Thu .
"Hexadecapolar Colloids". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10659. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240073.
@article{osti_1240073,
title = {Hexadecapolar Colloids},
author = {Senyuk, Bohdan and Puls, Owen and Tovkach, Oleh M. and Chernyshuk, Stanislav B. and Smalyukh, Ivan I.},
abstractNote = {Outermost occupied electron shells of chemical elements can have symmetries resembling that of monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles and octupoles corresponding to filled s-, p-, d- and forbitals. Theoretically, elements with hexadecapolar outer shells could also exist, but none of the known elements have filled g-orbitals. On the other hand, the research paradigm of ‘colloidal atoms’ displays complexity of particle behaviour exceeding that of atomic counterparts, which is driven by DNA functionalization, geometric shape and topology and weak external stimuli. We describe elastic hexadecapoles formed by polymer microspheres dispersed in a liquid crystal, a nematic fluid of orientationally ordered molecular rods. Because of conically degenerate boundary conditions, the solid microspheres locally perturb the alignment of the nematic host, inducing hexadecapolar distortions that drive anisotropic colloidal interactions. We uncover physical underpinnings of formation of colloidal elastic hexadecapoles and report the ensuing bonding inaccessible to elastic dipoles, quadrupoles and other nematic colloids studied previously.},
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year = {Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016},
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