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Size-dependent ordering of liquid crystals observed in polymeric capsules with micrometer and smaller diameters
Jugal K Gupta1, Sri Sivakumar, Frank Caruso
1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1415 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|January 22, 2009
Abstract:
Made to order: Aqueous dispersions of polymer-encapsulated liquid crystal (LC) droplets were synthesized with precise interfacial chemistry and sizes in the micrometer-to-sub-micrometer range. Size-dependent changes in LC ordering could be observed. Study of the competition between size and interfacial chemistry on LC ordering enables size-dependent properties of LC droplets to be exploited in applications such as photonics and sensing.
