Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals

Senyuk, Bohdan; Liu, Qingkun; Bililign, Ephraim; Nystrom, Philip D.; Smalyukh, Ivan I.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501

Title: Geometry-guided colloidal interactions and self-tiling of elastic dipoles formed by truncated pyramid particles in liquid crystals

Journal Article · Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.040501· OSTI ID:1595144

Senyuk, Bohdan ^[1]; Liu, Qingkun ^[1]; Bililign, Ephraim ^[1]; Nystrom, Philip D. ^[1]; Smalyukh, Ivan I. ^[2]

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.

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.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010305

OSTI ID:: 1595144

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1179355

Journal Information:: Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 4; ISSN 1539-3755

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