Liquid Crystal Nano-particles, LCNANOP – a SONS II Collaborative Research Project

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LC-NANOP is an ESF EUROCORES SONS Collaborative Research Project that is addressing an innovative approach to self-organized nanostructures by combination of a variety of organic, inorganic and metal scaffolds with the unique self-organization properties of liquid crystals to obtain liquid crystal nano-particles. LC-NANOP is concerned with the synthesis, analysis, characterization, modeling and physico-chemical properties of super- and supra-molecular systems which are formed from a nano-particle as a central scaffold, surrounded by a layer of liquid crystal. The self-organization properties of the liquid crystal coating is the driving force leading to the self-assembly of the nano-particles into secondary or tertiary hierarchical structures, with emphasis on the systematic variation of nano-particle size, chirality, shape and functionality. This bottom-up approach to nano-structuring is very powerful as it combines the extraordinary variety of morphologies that liquid crystals present with the combination of functional entities, relevant for chemical, biological, optoelectronic, and photonic tasks, etc, to create ordered nano-structures that can be controlled by external stimuli.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    W. Goodby John, Martin Bates & M. Saez Isabel

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Zwirki I Wigury 101, 02-089, 00927, Warsaw, Poland

    Ewa Gorecka

  3. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany

    Heinz-S. Kitzerow

  4. Institut de Physique et Chemie de Materiaux, Université Louis Pasteur, 23 rue de Loess, BP 43, 67084, Strasbourg, France

    Daniel Guillon & B. Donnio

  5. Departamento de Quimica Organica, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Spain

    Jose-Luis Serrano

  6. Université de Neuchâtel, Avenue de Bellevaux 51, Case postale 158, 2009, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    Robert Deschenaux

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John, W.G., Bates, M., Isabel, M.S. et al. Liquid Crystal Nano-particles, LCNANOP – a SONS II Collaborative Research Project. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1134, 904 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-1134-BB09-04

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