Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Artificial colloidal liquid metacrystals by shearing microlithography

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

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

Abstract

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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.