Isotropic-nematic phase transition in athermal solutions of rod-coil diblock copolymers

2007 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 034902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Jiang ◽  
Jianzhong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Diblock Copolymers

Reversible microscale assembly of nanoparticles driven by the phase transition of a thermotropic liquid crystal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niamh Mac Fhionnlaoich ◽  
Stephen Schrettl ◽  
Nicholas B. Tito ◽  
Ye Yang ◽  
Malavika Nair ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Hierarchical Control ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Model System ◽  
Microscopic Level ◽  
Reversible Process ◽  
Thermotropic Liquid Crystal

The arrangement of nanoscale building blocks into patterns with microscale periodicity is challenging to achieve via self-assembly processes. Here, we report on the phase transition-driven collective assembly of gold nanoparticles in a thermotropic liquid crystal. A temperature-induced transition from the isotropic to the nematic phase leads to the assembly of individual nanometre-sized particles into arrays of micrometre-sized aggregates, whose size and characteristic spacing can be tuned by varying the cooling rate. This fully reversible process offers hierarchical control over structural order on the molecular, nanoscopic, and microscopic level and is an interesting model system for the programmable patterning of nanocomposites with access to micrometre-sized periodicities.

Polar and nonpolar orderings in the electrically induced isotropic-nematic phase transition

2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingxia Gu ◽  
Sergij V. Shiyanovskii ◽  
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Nematic Phase

scholarly journals Topological nematic phase transition in Kitaev magnets under applied magnetic fields

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro O. Takahashi ◽  
Masahiko G. Yamada ◽  
Daichi Takikawa ◽  
Takeshi Mizushima ◽  
Satoshi Fujimoto
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Nematic Phase

scholarly journals Isotropic-nematic phase transition of polydisperse clay rods

2015 ◽  
Vol 142 (18) ◽  
pp. 184901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Woolston ◽  
Jeroen S. van Duijneveldt
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Nematic Phase

Nematic-nematic phase transition in the liquid crystal dimer CBC9CB and its mixtures with 5CB: A high-resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetric study

2011 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Shekhar Pati Tripathi ◽  
Patricia Losada-Pérez ◽  
Christ Glorieux ◽  
Alexandra Kohlmeier ◽  
Maria-Gabriela Tamba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Calorimetric Study

Effects of disorder on a smectic-A–nematic phase transition

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Larochelle ◽  
M. Ramazanoglu ◽  
R. J. Birgeneau
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Nematic Phase ◽  
Smectic A ◽  
Effects Of Disorder
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