Morphological transitions in liquid crystal nanodroplets

Tomar, V.; Hernández, S. I.; Abbott, N. L.; Hernández-Ortiz, J. P.; de Pablo, J. J.

doi:10.1039/C2SM25383F

Title: Morphological transitions in liquid crystal nanodroplets

Abstract

A continuum theory is utilized to study ordering in liquid crystal nanodroplets. The free energy functional that describes the system is minimized using an Euler–Lagrange approach and an unsymmetric radial basis function method. The equilibrium morphology in nanodroplets is shown to represent a delicate balance between bulk and surface contributions; when the radius of the droplet reaches a critical value, that balance is altered and the droplet undergoes a transition. By controlling the anchoring conditions at the droplet's surface, one can control the radius where the transition occurs and even prepare metastable droplets where small perturbations can trigger a morphological transition. The findings of the theory are shown to be consistent with recent experimental observations on monodisperse nematic liquid crystal nanodroplets.

Authors:

Tomar, V. ^[1]; Hernández, S. I. ^[1]; Abbott, N. L. ^[1]; Hernández-Ortiz, J. P. ^[2]; de Pablo, J. J. ^[1]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
National Univ. of Colombia, Medellín (Colombia)

Publication Date:: Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2012

Research Org.:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

OSTI Identifier:: 1623301

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0004025; DMR-1121288

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Soft Matter

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 33; Journal ID: ISSN 1744-683X

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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                    Tomar, V., Hernández, S. I., Abbott, N. L., Hernández-Ortiz, J. P., and de Pablo, J. J. Morphological transitions in liquid crystal nanodroplets.  United States: N. p., 2012. 
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                    Tomar, V., Hernández, S. I., Abbott, N. L., Hernández-Ortiz, J. P., & de Pablo, J. J. Morphological transitions in liquid crystal nanodroplets.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1039/C2SM25383F

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                    Tomar, V., Hernández, S. I., Abbott, N. L., Hernández-Ortiz, J. P., and de Pablo, J. J. Wed .  
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  title        = {Morphological transitions in liquid crystal nanodroplets},

  author       = {Tomar, V. and Hernández, S. I. and Abbott, N. L. and Hernández-Ortiz, J. P. and de Pablo, J. J.},

  abstractNote = {A continuum theory is utilized to study ordering in liquid crystal nanodroplets. The free energy functional that describes the system is minimized using an Euler–Lagrange approach and an unsymmetric radial basis function method. The equilibrium morphology in nanodroplets is shown to represent a delicate balance between bulk and surface contributions; when the radius of the droplet reaches a critical value, that balance is altered and the droplet undergoes a transition. By controlling the anchoring conditions at the droplet's surface, one can control the radius where the transition occurs and even prepare metastable droplets where small perturbations can trigger a morphological transition. The findings of the theory are shown to be consistent with recent experimental observations on monodisperse nematic liquid crystal nanodroplets.},

  doi          = {10.1039/C2SM25383F},

  journal      = {Soft Matter},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Jul 11 00:00:00 EDT 2012},

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Quenched disorder in a liquid-crystal biosensor: Adsorbed nanoparticles at confining walls journal, May 2005

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Curvature-induced configuration transition in confined nematic liquid crystals journal, January 1993

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Configuration transition in a nematic liquid crystal confined to a small spherical cavity journal, April 1990

Influence of Surfactant Tail Branching and Organization on the Orientation of Liquid Crystals at Aqueous−Liquid Crystal Interfaces journal, July 2005

Topological defects in dispersed words and worlds around liquid crystals, or liquid crystal drops journal, January 1998

Full energy expression of a uniaxial nematic phase with spatially dependent density and order parameters: From microscopic to macroscopic theory journal, November 2002

Multidimensional Director Modeling Using the Q Tensor Representation in a Liquid Crystal Cell and Its Application to the π Cell with Patterned Electrodes journal, January 1999

Determination of the liquid-crystal surface elastic constant K 24 journal, September 1991

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A double boundary collocation Hermitian approach for the solution of steady state convection–diffusion problems journal, May 2008

Monte carlo study of Gay–Berne liquid-crystal droplets journal, January 1995

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Surface waves in nematic liquid crystals journal, November 1969

A computer simulation study of the formation of liquid crystal nanodroplets from a homogeneous solution journal, January 2007

Continuous Nematic-Isotropic Transition in Submicron-Size Liquid-Crystal Droplets journal, December 1988

Characterization of Adsorbate-Induced Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals within Monodisperse Droplets journal, August 2009

Surfacelike-elasticity-induced spontaneous twist deformations and long-wavelength stripe domains in a hybrid nematic layer journal, March 1993

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Bracket formulation of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for systems interacting with the environment journal, June 2008

Anchoring and orientational wetting transitions of confined liquid crystals journal, March 1993

Alignment tensor versus director: Description of defects in nematic liquid crystals journal, July 1995

Orientational multiplicity and transitions in liquid crystalline droplets journal, February 2007

Topological transformations in bipolar shells of nematic liquid crystals journal, February 2009

K 13 term and effective boundary condition for the nematic director journal, July 1998

Nonideal surface and boundary condition for the nematic director journal, June 1998

Nematic-Smectic Transition in Spherical Shells journal, June 2011

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Stripe domains in a nearly homeotropic nematic liquid crystal: A bend escaped state at a nematic–smectic- A transition journal, April 2008

A computer simulation of nematic droplets with radial boundary conditions journal, November 1990

Computer simulations of nematic droplets with bipolar boundary conditions journal, October 1994

Flow induced deformation of defects around nanoparticles and nanodroplets suspended in liquid crystals journal, January 2010

Liquid-crystal-mediated self-assembly at nanodroplet interfaces journal, May 2012

Inequalities in Liquid Crystal Theory journal, January 1966

Slow dynamics of thin nematic films in the presence of adsorbed nanoparticles journal, January 2005

Phenomenology of short-range-order effects in the isotropic phase of nematic materials journal, December 1969

Size-Dependent Ordering of Liquid Crystals Observed in Polymeric Capsules with Micrometer and Smaller Diameters journal, January 2009

Computer simulation study of a liquid crystal confined to a spherical cavity
journal, January 2008

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journal, June 2007

On Some Elastic Instabilities in Biaxial Nematics
journal, April 1997

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journal, October 1983

Short Range Order Effects in the Isotropic Phase of Nematics and Cholesterics
journal, February 1971

Effect of nonmesogenic solute on the nematic-smectic-A phase transition
journal, June 2002

Director configurations in nematic droplets with inhomogeneous boundary conditions
journal, September 2005

Tricritical behavior of the smectic-A to smectic-C∗ transition
journal, August 2009

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journal, January 2010

Recent Advances in Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena Involving Liquid Crystals
journal, May 2011

Three-dimensional colloidal crystals in liquid crystalline blue phases
journal, February 2011

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journal, October 2002

Deuterium NMR of polymer dispersed liquid crystals
journal, January 1988

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journal, April 2006

Molecular configuration transitions of a nematic liquid crystal encapsulated in organically modified silicas
journal, January 2009

Structure and dynamics of a Gay–Berne liquid crystal confined in cylindrical nanopores
journal, June 2009

Self-assembly of amphiphiles, polymers and proteins at interfaces between thermotropic liquid crystals and aqueous phases
journal, June 2008

Real-time microbe detection based on director distortions around growing immune complexes in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
journal, February 2005

Anchoring transition in a nematic liquid crystal composed of centrosymmetric molecules
journal, February 1994

Direct solution of Navier–Stokes equations by radial basis functions
journal, September 2008

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journal, February 2011

Order and Dynamics Inside H-PDLC Nanodroplets: An ESR Spin Probe Study
journal, April 2009

Interactions of quadrupolar nematic colloids
journal, March 2008

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journal, August 1992

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journal, May 2005

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journal, October 1992

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journal, April 2000

Endotoxin-Induced Structural Transformations in Liquid Crystalline Droplets
journal, May 2011

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journal, September 2000

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journal, April 2005

Behavior of the helix in some chiral smectic- $C^{*}$ liquid crystals
journal, February 2010

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journal, January 1993

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journal, March 2012

Configuration transition in a nematic liquid crystal confined to a small spherical cavity
journal, April 1990

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journal, July 2005

Topological defects in dispersed words and worlds around liquid crystals, or liquid crystal drops
journal, January 1998

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journal, November 2002

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journal, January 1999

Determination of the liquid-crystal surface elastic constant $K_{24}$
journal, September 1991

Physics of liquid crystals
journal, October 1974

Field-driven first-order structural transition in the restricted geometry of a smectic- A cell
journal, July 1993

Effect of flexoelectricity and order electricity on defect cores in nematic droplets
journal, January 2011

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journal, January 2009

A double boundary collocation Hermitian approach for the solution of steady state convection–diffusion problems
journal, May 2008

Monte carlo study of Gay–Berne liquid-crystal droplets
journal, January 1995

Defect Structure around Two Colloids in a Liquid Crystal
journal, December 2003

Surface waves in nematic liquid crystals
journal, November 1969

A computer simulation study of the formation of liquid crystal nanodroplets from a homogeneous solution
journal, January 2007

Continuous Nematic-Isotropic Transition in Submicron-Size Liquid-Crystal Droplets
journal, December 1988

Characterization of Adsorbate-Induced Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals within Monodisperse Droplets
journal, August 2009

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journal, March 1993

Novel Defect Structures in a Strongly Confined Liquid-Crystalline Blue Phase
journal, January 2010

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journal, March 2005

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journal, June 2008

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journal, March 1993

Alignment tensor versus director: Description of defects in nematic liquid crystals
journal, July 1995

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journal, February 2007

Topological transformations in bipolar shells of nematic liquid crystals
journal, February 2009

$K_{13}$ term and effective boundary condition for the nematic director
journal, July 1998

Nonideal surface and boundary condition for the nematic director
journal, June 1998

Nematic-Smectic Transition in Spherical Shells
journal, June 2011

Quadrupolar particles in a nematic liquid crystal: Effects of particle size and shape
journal, February 2009

Colloid-wall interaction in a nematic liquid crystal: The mirror-image method of colloidal nematostatics
journal, February 2009

Poisson-bracket approach to the dynamics of nematic liquid crystals
journal, June 2003

Defects in Degenerate Hybrid Aligned Nematic Liquid Crystals
journal, May 1990

Fine structure of defects in radial nematic droplets
journal, November 2000

Nematic colloids entangled by topological defects
journal, January 2009

Surface variations of the density and scalar order parameter and the elastic constants of a uniaxial nematic phase
journal, March 1999

Stripe domains in a nearly homeotropic nematic liquid crystal: A bend escaped state at a nematic–smectic- $A$ transition
journal, April 2008

A computer simulation of nematic droplets with radial boundary conditions
journal, November 1990

Computer simulations of nematic droplets with bipolar boundary conditions
journal, October 1994

Flow induced deformation of defects around nanoparticles and nanodroplets suspended in liquid crystals
journal, January 2010

Liquid-crystal-mediated self-assembly at nanodroplet interfaces
journal, May 2012

Inequalities in Liquid Crystal Theory
journal, January 1966

Slow dynamics of thin nematic films in the presence of adsorbed nanoparticles
journal, January 2005

Phenomenology of short-range-order effects in the isotropic phase of nematic materials
journal, December 1969

Size-Dependent Ordering of Liquid Crystals Observed in Polymeric Capsules with Micrometer and Smaller Diameters
journal, January 2009

Two-Dimensional Nematic Colloidal Crystals Self-Assembled by Topological Defects
journal, August 2006

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journal, June 2008

Influence of pore shape on the structure of a nanoconfined Gay–Berne liquid crystal
journal, August 2009