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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 11, Issue 20, Pages 3493-3498Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1lc20402e
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0014822]
- South Korean Government
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We are reporting for the first time the pH responsiveness of liquid crystal (LC) microdroplets decorated with an amphiphilic block copolymer of PAA-b-LCP. We successfully demonstrated the adsorption of block copolymer on LC droplets by fluorescence microscopy and pH response to the radial-to-bipolar orientational change of the LC droplets by changing pH from 12 to 2 through the polarized optical microscope (POM). We believe that our results may pave the way for the generation of monodisperse droplets decorated by various amphiphilic block copolymers which respond to several kinds of the external stimuli. These developments may be important for potential applications of the LC droplets in sensing and encapsulation fields.
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