Synthesis of nickel bowl-like nanoparticles and their doping for inducing planar alignment of a nematic liquid crystal

  • Wei Zhou
  • , Lijuan Lin
  • , Dongyu Zhao*
  • , Lin Guo
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Nickel bowl-like nanoparticles have first been synthesized by a magnetic self-assembly process stabilized by polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) without any sphere-like materials as templates. A trace of doped bowls can induce liquid crystal (LC) molecules into a perfect planar alignment, attributable to their bowl-like shape and magnetic self-assembly into a 1D structure. It would provide a novel method of establishing LCs alignment by doping special nanostructured materials.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8389-8391
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume133
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Jun 2011

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