Issue 10, 2021

Orientational self-assembly of nanoparticles in nematic droplets

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that the anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a solid substrate together with the anchoring of the liquid crystal on a nanoparticle surface induces orientational self-assembly of anisometric nanoparticles in liquid crystal droplets. The observed phenomenon opens a novel route for fabrication of thin colloidal films with tailored properties.

Graphical abstract: Orientational self-assembly of nanoparticles in nematic droplets

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Feb 2021
Accepted
01 Apr 2021
First published
01 Apr 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2021,3, 2777-2781

Orientational self-assembly of nanoparticles in nematic droplets

N. Tomašovičová, M. Batkova, I. Batko, V. Lacková, V. Zavišová, P. Kopčanský, J. Jadżyn, P. Salamon and T. Tóth-Katona, Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 2777 DOI: 10.1039/D1NA00089F

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