Colloidal interactions and unusual crystallization versus de-mixing of elastic multipoles formed by gold mesoflowers

Elasticity-mediated particle interaction in a hosting medium holds promise for material engineering of unusual structures. Yuan et al. show that the gold microparticles can induce elastic multipoles of different symmetries when dispersed in a nematic liquid crystal as building blocks for various cry...

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Main Authors: Ye Yuan, Mykola Tasinkevych, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/742088f3661c47af8f1b11bbdaa218ab
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