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Article Dans Une Revue Advanced Functional Materials Année : 2012

LaPO 4 Mineral Liquid Crystalline Suspensions with Outstanding Colloidal Stability for Electro-Optical Applications

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Mineral liquid crystals are materials in which mineral's intrinsic properties are combined with the self-organization behavior of colloids. However, the use of such a system for practical application, such as optical switching, has rarely been demonstrated due to the fundamental drawbacks of colloidal systems such as limited dispersion stability. Studying colloidal suspensions of LaPO 4 nanorods, it is found that drastic improvement of colloidal stability can be obtained through a transfer of particles from water towards ethylene glycol, thus enabling the investigation of liquid crystalline properties of these concentrated suspensions. Using polarization microscopy and small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), self-organization into nematic and columnar mesophases is observed enabling the determination of the whole phase diagram as a function of ionic strength and rod volume fraction. When an external alternative electric field is applied, a very efficient orientation of the nanorods in the liquid-crystalline suspension is obtained, which is associated with a signifi cant optical birefringence. These properties, combined with the high colloidal stability, are promising for the use of such high transparent and athermal material in electro-optical devices.

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hal-00760762 , version 1 (04-12-2012)

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Jongwook Kim, Alexis de La Cotte, Rodolphe Deloncle, Samuel Archambeau, Claudine Biver, et al.. LaPO 4 Mineral Liquid Crystalline Suspensions with Outstanding Colloidal Stability for Electro-Optical Applications. Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, 22, pp. 4949-4956. ⟨10.1002/adfm.201200825⟩. ⟨hal-00760762⟩
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