Synthesis and assembly of colloidal cuboids with tunable shape biaxiality

Yang Yang; Guangdong Chen; Srinivas Thanneeru; Jie He; Kun Liu; Zhihong Nie

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06975-8

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Synthesis and assembly of colloidal cuboids with tunable shape biaxiality

Yang Yang,
Guangdong Chen,
Srinivas Thanneeru,
Jie He,
Kun Liu,
Zhihong Nie

Affiliations

Yang Yang: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland
Guangdong Chen: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland
Srinivas Thanneeru: Department of Chemistry, Institute of Materials Sciences, University of Connecticut
Jie He: Department of Chemistry, Institute of Materials Sciences, University of Connecticut
Kun Liu: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University
Zhihong Nie: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06975-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Monodisperse biaxial colloidal particles are used as model systems to understand the phase behavior of biaxial molecules but high-quality biaxial colloids are limited. Here the authors describe gram-scale synthesis of uniform biaxial colloidal cuboids and their assembly into mesophasic structures.

Published in Nature Communications

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