Colloidal Particles at Chiral Liquid Crystal Interfaces

Anne Claire Pawsey; Juho Lintuvuori

Colloidal Particles at Chiral Liquid Crystal Interfaces

Soft Condensed Matter 2014-03-20 v1

Authors: Anne Claire Pawsey , Juho Lintuvuori

Abstract

Colloidal particles trapped at an interface between two fluids can form a wide range of different structures. Replacing one of the fluid with a liquid crystal increases the complexity of interactions and results in a greater range of possible structures. New behaviour emerges when colloidal particles interact with defects in the liquid crystal phases. Here we discuss the templating of colloids at a cholesteric isotropic interface.

Keywords

crystal structure and quasicrystals phase separation liquid crystal physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1403.4867,
  title  = {Colloidal Particles at Chiral Liquid Crystal Interfaces},
  author = {Anne Claire Pawsey and Juho Lintuvuori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4867},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures

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