Electric-field–induced assembly and propulsion of chiral colloidal clusters
Abstract
Chiral molecules with opposite handedness exhibit distinct physical, chemical, or biological properties. They pose challenges as well as opportunities in understanding the phase behavior of soft matter, designing enantioselective catalysts, and manufacturing single-handed pharmaceuticals. Microscopic particles, arranged in a chiral configuration, could also exhibit unusual optical, electric, or magnetic responses. In this paper, we report a simple method to assemble achiral building blocks, i.e., the asymmetric colloidal dimers, into a family of chiral clusters. Under alternating current electric fields, two to four lying dimers associate closely with a central standing dimer and form both right- and left-handed clusters on a conducting substrate. The cluster configuration is primarily determined by the induced dipolar interactions between constituent dimers. Our theoretical model reveals that in-plane dipolar repulsion between petals in the cluster favors the achiral configuration, whereas out-of-plane attraction between the central dimer and surrounding petals favors a chiral arrangement. It is the competition between these two interactions that dictates the final configuration. The theoretical chirality phase diagram is found to be in excellent agreement with experimental observations. We further demonstrate that the broken symmetry in chiral clusters induces an unbalanced electrohydrodynamic flow surrounding them. As a result, they rotate in opposite directionsmore »
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- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
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- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1579856
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0004946
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 112; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
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- National Academy of Sciences
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; anisotropic colloids; directed-assembly; chirality; propulsion; electric field
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Ma, Fuduo, Wang, Sijia, Wu, David T., and Wu, Ning. Electric-field–induced assembly and propulsion of chiral colloidal clusters. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1502141112.
Ma, Fuduo, Wang, Sijia, Wu, David T., & Wu, Ning. Electric-field–induced assembly and propulsion of chiral colloidal clusters. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502141112
Ma, Fuduo, Wang, Sijia, Wu, David T., and Wu, Ning. Mon .
"Electric-field–induced assembly and propulsion of chiral colloidal clusters". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502141112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1579856.
@article{osti_1579856,
title = {Electric-field–induced assembly and propulsion of chiral colloidal clusters},
author = {Ma, Fuduo and Wang, Sijia and Wu, David T. and Wu, Ning},
abstractNote = {Chiral molecules with opposite handedness exhibit distinct physical, chemical, or biological properties. They pose challenges as well as opportunities in understanding the phase behavior of soft matter, designing enantioselective catalysts, and manufacturing single-handed pharmaceuticals. Microscopic particles, arranged in a chiral configuration, could also exhibit unusual optical, electric, or magnetic responses. In this paper, we report a simple method to assemble achiral building blocks, i.e., the asymmetric colloidal dimers, into a family of chiral clusters. Under alternating current electric fields, two to four lying dimers associate closely with a central standing dimer and form both right- and left-handed clusters on a conducting substrate. The cluster configuration is primarily determined by the induced dipolar interactions between constituent dimers. Our theoretical model reveals that in-plane dipolar repulsion between petals in the cluster favors the achiral configuration, whereas out-of-plane attraction between the central dimer and surrounding petals favors a chiral arrangement. It is the competition between these two interactions that dictates the final configuration. The theoretical chirality phase diagram is found to be in excellent agreement with experimental observations. We further demonstrate that the broken symmetry in chiral clusters induces an unbalanced electrohydrodynamic flow surrounding them. As a result, they rotate in opposite directions according to their handedness. Both the assembly and propulsion mechanisms revealed here can be potentially applied to other types of asymmetric particles. Lastly, such kinds of chiral colloids will be useful for fabricating metamaterials, making model systems for both chiral molecules and active matter, or building propellers for microscale transport.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1502141112},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 20,
volume = 112,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon May 04 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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