Artificial colloidal liquid metacrystals by shearing microlithography

Yanqiu Jiang; Fan Guo; Zhen Xu; Weiwei Gao; Chao Gao

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11941-z

Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Artificial colloidal liquid metacrystals by shearing microlithography

Yanqiu Jiang,
Fan Guo,
Zhen Xu,
Weiwei Gao,
Chao Gao

Affiliations

Yanqiu Jiang: MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University
Fan Guo: MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University
Zhen Xu: MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University
Weiwei Gao: MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University
Chao Gao: MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11941-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

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Stable periodic structures can be difficult to obtain in a liquid crystal compared to a solid due to the energetic instability of the former. Here the authors present a technique to fabricate quasicrystalline structures of graphene oxide liquid crystals which have high stability.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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