Issue 6, 2017

Room-temperature fabrication of mono-dispersed liquid crystalline shells with high viscosity and high melting points

Abstract

We propose a new method to fabricate mono-dispersed liquid crystalline (LC) microcapsules with shells consisting of LC materials showing high viscosity and/or high melting points at room temperature. In this method, it is important to control the state of the shell phase by the addition and removal of agents inducing LC-to-isotropic phase transitions and vice versa, respectively, at the right times.

Graphical abstract: Room-temperature fabrication of mono-dispersed liquid crystalline shells with high viscosity and high melting points

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Dec 2016
Accepted
03 Jan 2017
First published
16 Jan 2017

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017,5, 1303-1307

Room-temperature fabrication of mono-dispersed liquid crystalline shells with high viscosity and high melting points

T. Akita, H. Kouno, Y. Iwai, Y. Uchida and N. Nishiyama, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2017, 5, 1303 DOI: 10.1039/C6TC05267C

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