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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 108, 期 20, 页码 6152-6159出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp0363545
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Colloidally dispersed niobate nanosheets with the thickness of 1.8 nm and controlled mean lateral sizes of 0.15-7.8 mum were prepared and their liquid crystallinity was examined. The nanosheet colloids with different lateral sizes were obtained by exfoliation of single crystals of layered niobate K4Nb6O17 and subsequent ultrasonication. Naked-eye and microscope observations of the nanosheet colloids between crossed polarizers revealed liquid crystallinity of the sols characterized by birefringence as functions of the lateral sizes and concentration of the nanosheets. The nanosheet colloids with smaller lateral sizes (0.15-1.9 mum) varied from isotropic to biphasic (isotropic + liquid crystalline), and finally to fully liquid crystalline states as the colloid concentration increased. The phase transition concentrations (from isotropic to biphasic and biphasic to liquid crystalline) decreased with increasing aspect ratio (lateral-to-thickness ratio) of the nanosheets, almost in accordance with the prediction by Onsager theory, indicating that the liquid crystallinity is explained basically by excluded-volume effect between the nanosheets. On the other hand, the colloids with larger lateral sizes (6.2 and 7.8 mum) stably kept liquid crystalline state even at very low concentration (5.1 x 10(-6) in volume fraction), which was much lower than that expected from the theory.
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