Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Mixture of Nanosheets and Rods with Dynamically Variable Length | Zendy

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Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Mixture of Nanosheets and Rods with Dynamically Variable Length

Author(s) -

Riki Kato,

Akira Kakugo,

Kazuhiro Shikinaka,

Yutaka Ohsedo,

Arif Md. Rashedul Kabir,

Nobuyoshi Miyamoto

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

acs omega

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779

H-Index - 40

ISSN - 2470-1343

DOI - 10.1021/acsomega.8b01050

Subject(s) - rod , mesogen , materials science , mesoscopic physics , polymerization , colloid , liquid crystal , chemical engineering , biopolymer , phase (matter) , colloidal crystal , tubulin , crystallography , nanotechnology , chemical physics , microtubule , polymer , chemistry , liquid crystalline , composite material , organic chemistry , optoelectronics , alternative medicine , pathology , engineering , biology , quantum mechanics , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , physics

Here, we demonstrate the novel double-component liquid crystalline colloids composed of mesogenic inorganic nanosheets and the rods with dynamically variable length controlled by temperature. As the length-controllable rod, stiff biopolymer microtubule is used, which was successfully polymerized/depolymerized from tubulin proteins through a biochemical process even in the presence of the nanosheets. The mesoscopic structure of the liquid crystal phase was reversibly modifiable as caused by the change of the rod length.

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