Hexadecapolar Colloids

Senyuk, Bohdan; Puls, Owen; Tovkach, Oleh M.; Chernyshuk, Stanislav B.; Smalyukh, Ivan I.

doi:10.1038/ncomms10659

Title: Hexadecapolar Colloids

Journal Article · Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10659· OSTI ID:1240073

Senyuk, Bohdan ^[1]; Puls, Owen ^[1]; Tovkach, Oleh M. ^[2]; Chernyshuk, Stanislav B. ^[3]; Smalyukh, Ivan I. ^[1]

Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine); Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
Institute of Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine)

Outermost occupied electron shells of chemical elements can have symmetries resembling that of monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles and octupoles corresponding to filled s-, p-, d- and forbitals. Theoretically, elements with hexadecapolar outer shells could also exist, but none of the known elements have filled g-orbitals. On the other hand, the research paradigm of ‘colloidal atoms’ displays complexity of particle behaviour exceeding that of atomic counterparts, which is driven by DNA functionalization, geometric shape and topology and weak external stimuli. We describe elastic hexadecapoles formed by polymer microspheres dispersed in a liquid crystal, a nematic fluid of orientationally ordered molecular rods. Because of conically degenerate boundary conditions, the solid microspheres locally perturb the alignment of the nematic host, inducing hexadecapolar distortions that drive anisotropic colloidal interactions. We uncover physical underpinnings of formation of colloidal elastic hexadecapoles and report the ensuing bonding inaccessible to elastic dipoles, quadrupoles and other nematic colloids studied previously.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1240073

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-5900-65963

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 7; Related Information: Nature Communications; ISSN 2041-1723

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