Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers

Ye Yuan; Mykola Tasinkevych; Ivan I. Smalyukh

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14031-2

Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers

Ye Yuan,
Mykola Tasinkevych,
Ivan I. Smalyukh

Affiliations

Ye Yuan: Department of Physics and Soft Materials Research Center, University of Colorado
Mykola Tasinkevych: Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Ivan I. Smalyukh: Department of Physics and Soft Materials Research Center, University of Colorado

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14031-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Elasticity-mediated particle interaction in a hosting medium holds promise for material engineering of unusual structures. Yuan et al. show that the gold microparticles can induce elastic multipoles of different symmetries when dispersed in a nematic liquid crystal as building blocks for various crystals.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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