Issue 39, 2014
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Soft Matter

Thermo-sensitive discotic colloidal liquid crystals†

Xuezhen Wang,a   Di Zhao,b   Agustin Diaz,c   Ilse B. Nava Medina,d   Huiliang Wangb  and  Zhengdong Cheng*adef  

* Corresponding authors

a Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
E-mail: zcheng@tamu.edu

b College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

c Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3125, USA

d Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

e Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center, Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

f Soft Matter Center, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Functional Soft Condensed Matter, School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

We fabricated for the first time thermo-sensitive discotic liquid crystals by grafting poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) onto zirconium phosphate (ZrP) platelets using pre-irradiated polymerization. The I–N transition was investigated by adjusting the temperature for a single set of samples. We found that soft disks self-assemble into nematic liquid crystals in a wider thickness-over-diameter ratio than do hard disks.

Graphical abstract: Thermo-sensitive discotic colloidal liquid crystals

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4SM00797B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Apr 2014
Accepted
12 Aug 2014
First published
13 Aug 2014

Soft Matter, 2014,10, 7692-7695

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Thermo-sensitive discotic colloidal liquid crystals

X. Wang, D. Zhao, A. Diaz, I. B. Nava Medina, H. Wang and Z. Cheng, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 7692 DOI: 10.1039/C4SM00797B

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