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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 109, Issue 43, Pages 20145-20154Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp053224i
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Aqueous dispersions of Laponite, a synthetic clay neutralized by sodium counterions, are used as a model of charged anisotropic colloids to probe the influence of the shape of the particle on their organization within a macroscopic nematic phase. Because of the large fraction of condensed sodium counterions in the vicinity of the clay particle, Na-23 NMR is a sensitive probe of the nematic ordering of the clay dispersions. We used line shape analysis of the Na-23 NMR spectra and measurements of the Hahn echo attenuation to quantify the degree of alignment of the individual clay particles along a single nematic director. As justified by simple dynamical simulations of the interplay between the sodium quadrupolar relaxation and its diffusion through the porous network limited by the surface of the clay particles, we probe the degree of ordering within these clay nematic dispersions by measuring the variation of the apparent Na-23 NMR relaxation rates as a function of the macroscopic orientation of the clay dispersion within the magnetic field.
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