Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 25, Issue 23, Pages 13318-13321Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la903464t
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- University of Wisconsin [DMR-0425880, DMR-0832760]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [832760] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Observations of reversible interactions between pairs of chemically functionalized nanoparticles dispersed in nematic liquid crystals (LCs) are reported. In contrast to the irreversible association of microparticles in nematic LCs, by using gold nanoparticles and darkfield microscopy, particle tracking reveals the pairwise interactions of the nanoparticles in nematic LCs to be long-ranged and reversible. The measured range and strength of the pairwise interaction of the nanoparticles in the LCs was found to differ substantially from past theoretical predictions of nanoparticle interactions in LCs. The observation of reversible interactions between nanoparticles in LCs suggests that nematic LCs may provide new routes to spontaneous formation of ordered nanoparticle arrays.
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