Issue 1, 2011
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Soft Matter

Cholesteric colloidal liquid crystals from phytosterol rod-like particles

Laura Rossi,†a   Stefano Sacannab  and  Krassimir P. Velikov*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, Olivier van Noortlaan 120, Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
E-mail: Krassimir.Velikov@Unilever.com
Tel: +31 10 460 5068

b Center for Soft Matter Research, Department of Physics, New York University 4 Washington Place, New York, NY, USA
E-mail: S.Sacanna@nyu.edu

c Soft Condensed Matter, Debye Institute, Utrecht University, Princeton Plein 5, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abstract

We report the first observation of chiral colloidal liquid crystals of rod-like particles from a low molecular weight organic compound—phytosterols. Based on the particles shape and crystal structure, we attribute this phenomenon to chiral distribution of surface charge on the surface of neighbouring rods.

Graphical abstract: Cholesteric colloidal liquid crystals from phytosterol rod-like particles

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00822B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Aug 2010
Accepted
05 Oct 2010
First published
26 Oct 2010

Soft Matter, 2011,7, 64-67

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Cholesteric colloidal liquid crystals from phytosterol rod-like particles

L. Rossi, S. Sacanna and K. P. Velikov, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 64 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00822B

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