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Non‐Equilibrium Self‐Assembly of Monocomponent and Multicomponent Tubular Structures in Rotating Fluids
Author(s) -
Lee Taehoon,
Gizynski Konrad,
Grzybowski Bartosz A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201704274
Subject(s) - materials science , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , thermodynamics , chemical physics , physics , engineering
When suspended in a denser rotating fluid, lighter particles experience a cylindrically symmetric confining potential that drives their crystallization into either monocomponent or unprecedented binary tubular packing. These assemblies form around the fluid's axis of rotation, can be dynamically interconverted (upon accelerating or decelerating the fluid), can exhibit preferred chirality, and can be made permanent by solidifying the fluid. The assembly can be extended to fluids forming multiple concentric interfaces or to systems of bubbles forming both ordered and “gradient” structures within curable polymers.