Self-organized assemblies of colloidal particles obtained from an aligned chromonic liquid crystal dispersion

Soft Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1547-1553

  Zimmermann, Natalie ^a   Jünnemann Held, Gisela ^a   Collings, Peter J ^b,c   Kitzerow, Heinz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSIONS; ESTERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

CHROMONIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED PARTICLES; ORGANIZED ASSEMBLY; PATTERNED ASSEMBLY; SELF ORGANIZED STRUCTURES; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

COLLOIDS;

COLLOID; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; LIQUID CRYSTAL;

COLLOIDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE;

EID: 84923338547     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02579b     Document Type: Article

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