Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals
Abstract
The progress of realizing colloidal structures mimicking natural forms of organization in condensed matter is inherently limited by the availability of suitable colloidal building blocks. To enable new forms of crystalline and quasicrystalline self-organization of colloids, we develop truncated pyramidal particles that form nematic elastic dipoles with long-range electrostaticlike and geometry-guided low-symmetry short-range interactions. Using a combination of nonlinear optical imaging, laser tweezers, and video microscopy, we characterize colloidal pair interactions and demonstrate unusual forms of self-tiling of these particles into crystalline, quasicrystalline, and other arrays. Here, our findings are explained using an electrostatics analogy along with liquid crystal elasticity and symmetry breaking considerations, potentially expanding photonic and electro-optic applications of colloids.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Liquid Crystals 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:
- 1595144
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1179355
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010305
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 91; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1539-3755
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Senyuk, Bohdan, Liu, Qingkun, Bililign, Ephraim, Nystrom, Philip D., and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501.
Senyuk, Bohdan, Liu, Qingkun, Bililign, Ephraim, Nystrom, Philip D., & Smalyukh, Ivan I. Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501
Senyuk, Bohdan, Liu, Qingkun, Bililign, Ephraim, Nystrom, Philip D., and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Tue .
"Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1595144.
@article{osti_1595144,
title = {Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals},
author = {Senyuk, Bohdan and Liu, Qingkun and Bililign, Ephraim and Nystrom, Philip D. and Smalyukh, Ivan I.},
abstractNote = {The progress of realizing colloidal structures mimicking natural forms of organization in condensed matter is inherently limited by the availability of suitable colloidal building blocks. To enable new forms of crystalline and quasicrystalline self-organization of colloids, we develop truncated pyramidal particles that form nematic elastic dipoles with long-range electrostaticlike and geometry-guided low-symmetry short-range interactions. Using a combination of nonlinear optical imaging, laser tweezers, and video microscopy, we characterize colloidal pair interactions and demonstrate unusual forms of self-tiling of these particles into crystalline, quasicrystalline, and other arrays. Here, our findings are explained using an electrostatics analogy along with liquid crystal elasticity and symmetry breaking considerations, potentially expanding photonic and electro-optic applications of colloids.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501},
journal = {Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics},
number = 4,
volume = 91,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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