RT Journal Article
T1 Stable smectic phase in suspensions of polydisperse colloidal platelets with identical thickness
A1 Sun, Dazhi
A1 Sue, Hung-Jue
A1 Cheng, Zhengdong
A1 Martínez-Ratón, Yuri
A1 Velasco, Enrique
AB We report the nematic and smectic ordering in an aqueous suspension of monolayer α-Zirconium phosphate platelets possessing a high polydispersity in diameter but uniform thickness. We observe an isotropic-nematic transition as the platelet volume fraction increases, followed by the formation of a smectic, an elusive phase that has been rarely seen in discotic liquid crystals. The smectic phase is characterized by x-ray diffraction high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and optical microscopy. The phase equilibria in this highly polydisperse suspension are rationalized in terms of a theoretical approach based on density-functional theory.
PB The American Physical Society
SN 1539-3755
YR 2009
FD 2009-10
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6977
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10016/6977
LA eng
NO 6 pages, 6 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 61.30.Eb, 64.70.M−, 81.16.Dn, 82.70.Dd.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2625
NO Acknowledgment is made to the donors of ACS Petroleum Research Fund (Grant No. 45303-G7) and to the Dow Chemical Co. This work has been partly financed by start-up funds from Texas Engineering Experimental Station and Texas A&M University, by Grants No. NANOFLUID, No. MOSAICO, and No. S-0505/ESP-0299 from Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), and Grants No. FIS2005-05243-C02-01, No.FIS2007-65869-C03-01, No. FIS2008-05865-C02-02, and No. FIS2007-65869-C03-C01 from Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain).
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