Mesostructured Composite Materials with Electrically Tunable Upconverting Properties
Abstract
A promising approach of designing mesostructured materials with novel physical behavior is to combine unique optical and electronic properties of solid nanoparticles with long-range ordering and facile response of soft matter to weak external stimuli. Here, orientationally ordered nematic liquid crystalline dispersions of rod-like upconversion nanoparticles are designed, practically realized, and characterized. Boundary conditions on particle surfaces, defined through surface functionalization, promote spontaneous unidirectional self-alignment of the dispersed rod-like nanoparticles, mechanically coupled to the molecular ordering direction of the thermotropic nematic liquid crystal host. As host is electrically switched at low voltages ≈1 V, nanorods rotate, yielding tunable upconversion and polarized luminescence properties of the composite. In conclusion, spectral and polarization dependencies are characterized and explained through invoking models of electrical switching of liquid crystals and upconversion dependence on crystalline matrices of nanorods, and their potential practical uses are discussed.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center; National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Inst.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1595134
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010305
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Small
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 41; Journal ID: ISSN 1613-6810
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; electric switching; liquid crystals; orientational order; polarized luminescence; upconversion, nanoparticles
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Mundoor, Haridas, and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Mesostructured Composite Materials with Electrically Tunable Upconverting Properties. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1002/smll.201501788.
Mundoor, Haridas, & Smalyukh, Ivan I. Mesostructured Composite Materials with Electrically Tunable Upconverting Properties. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201501788
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@article{osti_1595134,
title = {Mesostructured Composite Materials with Electrically Tunable Upconverting Properties},
author = {Mundoor, Haridas and Smalyukh, Ivan I.},
abstractNote = {A promising approach of designing mesostructured materials with novel physical behavior is to combine unique optical and electronic properties of solid nanoparticles with long-range ordering and facile response of soft matter to weak external stimuli. Here, orientationally ordered nematic liquid crystalline dispersions of rod-like upconversion nanoparticles are designed, practically realized, and characterized. Boundary conditions on particle surfaces, defined through surface functionalization, promote spontaneous unidirectional self-alignment of the dispersed rod-like nanoparticles, mechanically coupled to the molecular ordering direction of the thermotropic nematic liquid crystal host. As host is electrically switched at low voltages ≈1 V, nanorods rotate, yielding tunable upconversion and polarized luminescence properties of the composite. In conclusion, spectral and polarization dependencies are characterized and explained through invoking models of electrical switching of liquid crystals and upconversion dependence on crystalline matrices of nanorods, and their potential practical uses are discussed.},
doi = {10.1002/smll.201501788},
journal = {Small},
number = 41,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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