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Published on: May 15, 2017
Temperature-dependent isotropic-to-nematic transition of charged nanoplates
Huawei Li1, Xuezhen Wang2, Ying Chen1
1Soft Matter Center, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory on Functional Soft Condensed Matter, School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China.
Abstract:
Studies of temperature-dependent phase behaviors of discotic colloids are found infrequently in the literature. We establish here the isotropic-to-nematic (I-N) transition phase diagram of charged platelets in the temperature-versus-volume fraction plane. We discover that the N phase can be melted by increasing temperature, and that coexistent samples are more sensitive to polydispersity at higher temperature and higher concentration.

