Orientational self-assembly of nanoparticles in nematic droplets

Natália Tomašovičová; Marianna Batkova; Ivan Batko; Veronika Lacková; Vlasta Zavišová; Peter Kopčanský; Jan Jadżyn; Péter Salamon; Tibor Tóth-Katona

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Orientational self-assembly of nanoparticles in nematic droplets

Natália Tomašovičová,

*^a Marianna Batkova,

^a Ivan Batko,†^a Veronika Lacková,

^a Vlasta Zavišová,

^a Peter Kopčanský,

^a Jan Jadżyn,^b Péter Salamon

^c and Tibor Tóth-Katona

*^c

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^a Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonová 47, 04001 Košice, Slovakia
E-mail: nhudak@saske.sk

^b Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 16 Smoluchowskiego str., 60179 Poznan, Poland

^c Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33, Budapest, Hungary
E-mail: tothkatona.tibor@wigner.hu

Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally that the anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a solid substrate together with the anchoring of the liquid crystal on a nanoparticle surface induces orientational self-assembly of anisometric nanoparticles in liquid crystal droplets. The observed phenomenon opens a novel route for fabrication of thin colloidal films with tailored properties.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NA00089F
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 04 Feb 2021
Accepted: 01 Apr 2021
First published: 01 Apr 2021
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Nanoscale Adv., 2021,3, 2777-2781

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Orientational self-assembly of nanoparticles in nematic droplets

N. Tomašovičová, M. Batkova, I. Batko, V. Lacková, V. Zavišová, P. Kopčanský, J. Jadżyn, P. Salamon and T. Tóth-Katona, Nanoscale Adv., 2021, 3, 2777 DOI: 10.1039/D1NA00089F

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