| Autor: |
Zhijian Mai, Ye Yuan, Jung‐Shen B. Tai, Bohdan Senyuk, Bing Liu, Hao Li, Yao Wang, Guofu Zhou, Ivan I. Smalyukh |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Advanced Science, Vol 8, Iss 22, Pp n/a-n/a (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2198-3844 |
| DOI: |
10.1002/advs.202102854 |
| Popis: |
Abstract Dispersing inorganic colloidal nanoparticles within nematic liquid crystals provides a versatile platform both for forming new soft matter phases and for predefining physical behavior through mesoscale molecular‐colloidal self‐organization. However, owing to formation of particle‐induced singular defects and complex elasticity‐mediated interactions, this approach has been implemented mainly just for colloidal nanorods and nanoplatelets, limiting its potential technological utility. Here, orientationally ordered nematic colloidal dispersions are reported of pentagonal gold bipyramids that exhibit narrow but controlled polarization‐dependent surface plasmon resonance spectra and facile electric switching. Bipyramids tend to orient with their C5 rotation symmetry axes along the nematic director, exhibiting spatially homogeneous density within aligned samples. Topological solitons, like heliknotons, allow for spatial reorganization of these nanoparticles according to elastic free energy density within their micrometer‐scale structures. With the nanoparticle orientations slaved to the nematic director and being switched by low voltages ≈1 V within a fraction of a second, these plasmonic composite materials are of interest for technological uses like color filters and plasmonic polarizers, as well as may lead to the development of unusual nematic phases, like pentatic liquid crystals. |
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