Liquid crystal phases in the aqueous colloids of size-controlled fluorinated layered clay mineral nanosheets.
Size-controlled nanosheet colloids of fluorohectorite and fluortetrasilicic mica were prepared in high yield and their transitions to fluid liquid crystal (LC) phases with highly ordered lamellar structures were identified over a wide concentration range, which is a rare case for clay mineral systems.
Miyamoto
Nobuyoshi
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Department of Life, Environment and Materials Science, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan. miyamoto@fit.ac.jp
Iijima
Hirokazu
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Ohkubo
Hirokazu
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Yamauchi
Yusuke
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