Spontaneous liquid crystal and ferromagnetic ordering of colloidal magnetic nanoplates

Shuai, M.; Klittnick, A.; Shen, Y.; Smith, G. P.; Tuchband, M. R.; Zhu, C.; Petschek, R. G.; Mertelj, A.; Lisjak, D.; Čopič, M.; Maclennan, J. E.; Glaser, M. A.; Clark, N. A.

doi:10.1038/ncomms10394

Title: Spontaneous liquid crystal and ferromagnetic ordering of colloidal magnetic nanoplates

Journal Article · Thu Jan 28 04:00:00 UTC 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10394 · OSTI ID:1255545

Shuai, M. ^[1]; Klittnick, A. ^[1]; Shen, Y. ^[1]; Smith, G. P. ^[1]; Tuchband, M. R. ^[1]; Zhu, C. ^[2]; Petschek, R. G. ^[3]; Mertelj, A. ^[4]; Lisjak, D. ^[4]; Čopič, M. ^[5]; Maclennan, J. E. ^[1]; Glaser, M. A. ^[1]; Clark, N. A. ^[1]

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
Jozef Stefan Inst. (IJS), Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Jozef Stefan Inst. (IJS), Ljubljana (Slovenia); Univ. of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Ferrofluids are familiar as colloidal suspensions of ferromagnetic nanoparticles in aqueous or organic solvents. The dispersed particles are randomly oriented but their moments become aligned if a magnetic field is applied, producing a variety of exotic and useful magnetomechanical effects. A longstanding interest and challenge has been to make such suspensions macroscopically ferromagnetic, that is having uniform magnetic alignment in the absence of a field. Here we report a fluid suspension of magnetic nanoplates that spontaneously aligns into an equilibrium nematic liquid crystal phase that is also macroscopically ferromagnetic. We find Its zero-field magnetization produces distinctive magnetic self-interaction effects, including liquid crystal textures of fluid block domains arranged in closed flux loops, and makes this phase highly sensitive, with it dramatically changing shape even in the Earth’s magnetic field.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1255545

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (44)

Chemical Substitution—An Alternative Strategy for Controlling the Particle Size of Barium Ferrite Lisjak, Darja; Drofenik, Miha Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 12, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/cg301227r	journal	October 2012
Entropic Wetting and the Free Isotropic−Nematic Interface of Hard Colloidal Platelets Reich, Hendrik; Dijkstra, Marjolein; van Roij, René The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 111, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1021/jp068870b	journal	July 2007
Ferromagnetism in suspensions of magnetic platelets in liquid crystal Mertelj, Alenka; Lisjak, Darja; Drofenik, Miha Nature, Vol. 504, Issue 7479 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12863	journal	December 2013
Magneto-optic and converse magnetoelectric effects in a ferromagnetic liquid crystal Mertelj, Alenka; Osterman, Natan; Lisjak, Darja Soft Matter, Vol. 10, Issue 45 https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm01625d	journal	January 2014
Nematic–isotropic transition in polydisperse systems of infinitely thin hard platelets Bates, Martin A.; Frenkel, Daan The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 110, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.478558	journal	April 1999
Liquid-crystalline aqueous clay suspensions Michot, L. J.; Bihannic, I.; Maddi, S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 103, Issue 44 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605201103	journal	October 2006
Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals: Realizability and Molecular Constraints Palffy-Muhoray, P.; Lee, M. A.; Petschek, Rolfe G. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 60, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.2303	journal	May 1988
Behavior of a magnetic fluid microdrop in a rotating magnetic field Bacri, J. -C.; Cebers, A. O.; Perzynski, R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 72, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.2705	journal	April 1994
Isotropic-Nematic Interface and Wetting in Suspensions of Colloidal Platelets van der Beek, D.; Reich, H.; van der Schoot, P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.97.087801	journal	August 2006
New Trends in Colloidal Liquid Crystals Based on Mineral Moieties Gabriel, J. -C. P.; Davidson, P. Advanced Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1521-4095(200001)12:1<9::AID-ADMA9>3.0.CO;2-6	journal	January 2000
Magnetic Properties of Colloidal Suspensions of Interacting Magnetic Particles Huke, B.; Luecke, M. ChemInform, Vol. 36, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1002/chin.200527218	journal	July 2005
Magnetic Properties of Colloidal Suspensions of Interacting Magnetic Particles Huke, B.; Luecke, M. ChemInform, Vol. 36, Issue 28 https://doi.org/10.1002/chin.200528214	journal	July 2005
Ferronematics Rault, J.; Cladis, P. E.; Burger, J. P. Physics Letters A, Vol. 32, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1016/0375-9601(70)90274-4	journal	June 1970
The interfacial stability of a ferromagnetic fluid Cowley, M. D.; Rosensweig, R. E. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 30, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112067001697	journal	December 1967
Dynamics and stability of ferrofluids: surface interactions Zelazo, Ronald E.; Melcher, James R. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 39, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112069002011	journal	October 1969
Chemical Substitution—An Alternative Strategy for Controlling the Particle Size of Barium Ferrite Lisjak, Darja; Drofenik, Miha Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 12, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1021/cg301227r	journal	October 2012
Entropic Wetting and the Free Isotropic−Nematic Interface of Hard Colloidal Platelets Reich, Hendrik; Dijkstra, Marjolein; van Roij, René The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 111, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1021/jp068870b	journal	July 2007
Salt-Induced Ordering in Lamellar Colloids Rowan, D. G.; Hansen, J. -P. Langmuir, Vol. 18, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1021/la011424p	journal	March 2002
Directed Assembly of BaFe ₁₂ O ₁₉ Particles and the Formation of Magnetically Oriented Films Lisjak, Darja; Ovtar, Simona Langmuir, Vol. 27, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1021/la2032863	journal	December 2011
Liquid crystal phase transitions in suspensions of polydisperse plate-like particles van der Kooij, Felix M.; Kassapidou, Katerina; Lekkerkerker, Henk N. W. Nature, Vol. 406, Issue 6798 https://doi.org/10.1038/35022535	journal	August 2000
Ferromagnetic ferrofluids Clark, Noel A. Nature, Vol. 504, Issue 7479 https://doi.org/10.1038/504229a	journal	December 2013
Ferromagnetism in suspensions of magnetic platelets in liquid crystal Mertelj, Alenka; Lisjak, Darja; Drofenik, Miha Nature, Vol. 504, Issue 7479 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12863	journal	December 2013
Elastic constants of hard thick platelets by Monte Carlo simulation and virial expansion O'Brien, Paul A. C.; Allen, Michael P.; Cheung, David L. Soft Matter, Vol. 7, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00541J	journal	January 2011
Magneto-optic and converse magnetoelectric effects in a ferromagnetic liquid crystal Mertelj, Alenka; Osterman, Natan; Lisjak, Darja Soft Matter, Vol. 10, Issue 45 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4SM01625D	journal	January 2014
Theory of magnetic suspensions in liquid crystals Brochard, F.; de Gennes, P. G. Journal de Physique, Vol. 31, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1051/jphys:01970003107069100	journal	January 1970
Nematic–isotropic transition in polydisperse systems of infinitely thin hard platelets Bates, Martin A.; Frenkel, Daan The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 110, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.478558	journal	April 1999
Influence of particle shape on the nematic—isotropic transition of colloidal platelet systems Bates, Martin A. The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 111, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.479433	journal	July 1999
Liquid-crystalline aqueous clay suspensions Michot, L. J.; Bihannic, I.; Maddi, S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 103, Issue 44 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605201103	journal	October 2006
Magnetic properties of colloidal suspensions of interacting magnetic particles Huke, B.; Lücke, M. Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 67, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/67/10/R01	journal	August 2004
Simple Molecular Model for the Smectic A Phase of Liquid Crystals McMillan, W. L. Physical Review A, Vol. 4, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.4.1238	journal	September 1971
Ferroelectric nematic liquid-crystal phases of dipolar hard ellipsoids Baus, Marc; Colot, Jean-Louis Physical Review A, Vol. 40, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.40.5444	journal	November 1989
Dipolar and Quadrupolar Ordering in S = 3 2 Ising Systems Sivardière, J.; Blume, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 5, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.5.1126	journal	February 1972
Molecular dynamics study on the equilibrium magnetization properties and structure of ferrofluids Wang, Zuowei; Holm, Christian; Müller, Hanns Walter Physical Review E, Vol. 66, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.021405	journal	August 2002
Chain aggregate structure and magnetic birefringence in polydisperse ferrofluids Ivanov, Alexey O.; Kantorovich, Sofia S. Physical Review E, Vol. 70, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.021401	journal	August 2004
Effect of high spontaneous polarization on defect structures and orientational dynamics of tilted chiral smectic freely suspended films Link, Darren R.; Chattham, Nattaporn; Maclennan, Joseph E. Physical Review E, Vol. 71, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021704	journal	February 2005
Isotropic-Nematic Phase Transition in Liquid Crystals Fan, Chung-peng; Stephen, Michael J. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 25, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.25.500	journal	August 1970
Monte Carlo Study of the Isotropic-Nematic Transition in a Fluid of Thin Hard Disks Frenkel, Daan; Eppenga, Rob Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1089	journal	October 1982
Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals: Realizability and Molecular Constraints Palffy-Muhoray, P.; Lee, M. A.; Petschek, Rolfe G. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 60, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2303	journal	May 1988
Behavior of a magnetic fluid microdrop in a rotating magnetic field Bacri, J. -C.; Cebers, A. O.; Perzynski, R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 72, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.2705	journal	April 1994
Isotropic-Nematic Interface and Wetting in Suspensions of Colloidal Platelets van der Beek, D.; Reich, H.; van der Schoot, P. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 97, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.087801	journal	August 2006
Physical Theory of Ferromagnetic Domains Kittel, Charles Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 21, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.21.541	journal	October 1949
Physical Theory of Ferromagnetic Domains McKeehan, L. W. Physical Review, Vol. 79, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.79.745.2	journal	August 1950
The Effects of Shape on the Interaction of Colloidal Particles Onsager, Lars Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 51, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1949.tb27296.x	journal	May 1949
Device Applications of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Importance of Polarization Charge Interactions Zhuang, Zhiming; Maclennan, Joseph E.; Clark, Noel A. OE/LASE '89, SPIE Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.976407	conference	July 1989

Cited By (27)

Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles Lee, Yih Hong; Lay, Chee Leng; Shi, Wenxiong Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05102-x	journal	July 2018
Calculation of exchange integrals and Curie temperature for La-substituted barium hexaferrites Wu, Chuanjian; Yu, Zhong; Sun, Ke Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/srep36200	journal	October 2016
Ferrocholesteric–ferronematic transitions induced by shear flow and magnetic field Makarov, Dmitriy V.; Novikov, Alexander A.; Zakhlevnykh, Alexander N. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Vol. 8 https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.8.255	journal	November 2017
Structure-Relaxivity Relationships of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Zhou, Zijian; Yang, Lijiao; Gao, Jinhao Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804567	journal	January 2019
Magnetic Nanoplatelets for High Contrast Cardiovascular Imaging by Magnetically Modulated Optical Coherence Tomography Hu, Jie; Gorsak, Tanja; Martín Rodríguez, Emma ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 3, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201900071	journal	April 2019
Magnetic Nanoplatelets for High Contrast Cardiovascular Imaging by Magnetically Modulated Optical Coherence Tomography Hu, Jie; Gorsak, Tanja; Martín Rodríguez, Emma ChemPhotoChem, Vol. 3, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201900178	journal	May 2019
Gold Nanoparticles Thin Films with Thermo‐ and Photoresponsive Plasmonic Properties Realized with Liquid‐Crystalline Ligands Tomczyk, Ewelina; Promiński, Aleksander; Bagiński, Maciej Small, Vol. 15, Issue 37 https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201902807	journal	June 2019
Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles Lee, Yih Hong; Lay, Chee Leng; Shi, Wenxiong Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05102-x	journal	July 2018
Discrete evolution of the crystal structure during the growth of Ba-hexaferrite nanoplatelets Makovec, D.; Belec, B.; Goršak, T. Nanoscale, Vol. 10, Issue 30 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr03815e	journal	January 2018
Manipulation enhancement of terahertz liquid crystal phase shifter magnetically induced by ferromagnetic nanoparticles Ji, Yunyun; Fan, Fei; Xu, Shitong Nanoscale, Vol. 11, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr09259a	journal	January 2019
Director reorientation dynamics of ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals Sebastián, Nerea; Osterman, Natan; Lisjak, Darja Soft Matter, Vol. 14, Issue 35 https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm01377b	journal	January 2018
Evolution of nematic and ferromagnetic ordering in suspensions of magnetic nanoplatelets Mertelj, Alenka; Lampret, Borut; Lisjak, Darja Soft Matter, Vol. 15, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sm00949c	journal	January 2019
A comparison between size dependent paraelectric and ferroelectric BaTiO ₃ nanoparticle doped nematic and ferroelectric liquid crystals Al-Zangana, S.; Turner, M.; Dierking, I. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 121, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4976859	journal	February 2017
Effective Landau theory of ferronematics Zarubin, Grigorii; Bier, Markus; Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 149, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5040438	journal	August 2018
Rotational dynamics of colloidal hexaferrite nanoplates Eliseev, Artem A.; Eliseev, Andrei A.; Trusov, Lev A. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 113, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5044728	journal	September 2018
CdSe quantum dots in chiral smectic C matrix: experimental evidence of smectic layer distortion by small and wide angle X-ray scattering and subsequent effect on electro-optical parameters Singh, D. P.; Visvanathan, R.; Duncan, A. E. Liquid Crystals, Vol. 46, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2018.1502371	journal	July 2018
From colloids in liquid crystals to colloidal liquid crystals Dierking, Ingo Liquid Crystals, Vol. 46, Issue 13-14 https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2019.1641755	journal	August 2019
Ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystals Mertelj, Alenka; Lisjak, Darja Liquid Crystals Reviews, Vol. 5, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1080/21680396.2017.1304835	journal	January 2017
Magnetic nanoparticles in a nematic channel: A one-dimensional study Bisht, Konark; Banerjee, Varsha; Milewski, Paul Physical Review E, Vol. 100, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.100.012703	journal	July 2019
Magneto-optic dynamics in a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal Potisk, Tilen; Mertelj, Alenka; Sebastián, Nerea Physical Review E, Vol. 97, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.97.012701	journal	January 2018
Dynamic Magneto-optic Coupling in a Ferromagnetic Nematic Liquid Crystal Potisk, Tilen; Svenšek, Daniel; Brand, Helmut R. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.097802	journal	September 2017
Field-controlled structures in ferromagnetic cholesteric liquid crystals Medle Rupnik, Peter; Lisjak, Darja; Čopič, Martin Science Advances, Vol. 3, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701336	journal	October 2017
Magnetic Ordering in Systems of Identical Particles with an Arbitrary Spin Orlenko, Elena; Orlenko, Fedor Chemosensors, Vol. 7, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors7040054	journal	November 2019
Effective Landau theory of ferronematics Zarubin, Grigorii; Bier, Markus; Dietrich, Siegfried arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1805.07074	text	January 2018
Magnetic Nanoparticles in a Nematic Channel: A One-Dimensional Study Bisht, Konark; Banerjee, Varsha; Milewski, Paul arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1809.04630	text	January 2018
CdSe quantum dots in chiral smectic C matrix: experimental evidence of smectic layer distortion by small and wide angle X-ray scattering and subsequent effect on electro-optical parameters Singh, D. P.; Visvanathan, R.; Duncan, A. E. Taylor & Francis https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6885176	text	January 2018
CdSe quantum dots in chiral smectic C matrix: experimental evidence of smectic layer distortion by small and wide angle X-ray scattering and subsequent effect on electro-optical parameters Singh, D. P.; Visvanathan, R.; Duncan, A. E. Figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6885176.v1	text	January 2018

Similar Records

Optical patterning of magnetic domains and defects in ferromagnetic liquid crystal colloids

Journal Article · Mon Aug 17 04:00:00 UTC 2015 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:1225330

Hess, Andrew J.; Liu, Qingkun; Smalyukh, Ivan I.

Experimental investigation of magnetically driven flow of ferrofluids in porous media

Technical Report · Sat Aug 01 04:00:00 UTC 1998 · OSTI ID:290810

Borglin, S E; Moridis, G J; Oldenburg, C M

Flocking ferromagnetic colloids

Journal Article · Wed Feb 15 04:00:00 UTC 2017 · Science Advances · OSTI ID:1353032

Kaiser, Andreas; Snezhko, Alexey; Aranson, Igor S.

Related Subjects

77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Title: Spontaneous liquid crystal and ferromagnetic ordering of colloidal magnetic nanoplates

Citation Formats

References (44)

Cited By (27)

Similar Records

Related Subjects