Rheology of thermotropic liquid-crystalline dendron-modified gold nanoparticles

Masaki Matsubara; Atsushi Miyazaki; Xiangbing Zeng; Atsushi Muramatsu; Goran Ungar; Kiyoshi Kanie

doi:10.1080/15421406.2015.1075818

Rheology of thermotropic liquid-crystalline dendron-modified gold nanoparticles

Masaki Matsubara, Atsushi Miyazaki, Xiangbing Zeng, Atsushi Muramatsu, Goran Ungar, Kiyoshi Kanie

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Abstract

Rheological behavior across thermal phase transitions of liquid crystalline (LC) structures has been investigated using dendron-modified LC gold nanoparticles (NPs) prepared by surface modification of spherical gold NPs with LC dendrons. Such dendron-modified gold NPs self-organize to form a columnar LC structure that transforms to a simple cubic LC structure with increasing temperature. Endo- and exothermic peaks associated with this phase transition are barely observable. However, using dynamic viscoelastic measurements, the transition was observed as a drastic increase in fluidity of the dendron modified gold NPs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	50-57
Number of pages	8
Journal	Molecular crystals and liquid crystals
Volume	617
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2015.1075818
Publication status	Published - 2015 Aug 13

Keywords

Dendrimer
Gold Nanoparticle
Liquid Crystal
Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Material
Rheology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Chemistry(all)
Materials Science(all)
Condensed Matter Physics

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