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Directed self-assembly into low-density colloidal liquid crystal phases
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Alignment of anisometric particles into liquid crystals (LCs) often results from an entropic competition between their rotational and translational degrees of freedom at dense packings. Here we show that by selectively functionalizing the heads of colloidal rods with magnetic nanoparticles this tendency can be broken to direct the particles into novel, low-density LC phases. Under an external magnetic field, the magnetic heads line up in columns whereas the nonmagnetic tails point out randoml...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.015601
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- Publisher:
- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Physical Review Materials Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 015601
- Publication date:
- 2018-01-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-16
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- ISSN:
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2475-9953
- Source identifiers:
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813621
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- pubs:813621
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- 2018-01-03
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- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- Copyright © 2018 American Physical Society. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the American Physical Society at: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.015601
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