Dynamic ordering transitions of liquid crystals driven by interfacial complexes formed between polyanions and amphiphilic polyamines.
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SUBMITTER: Kinsinger MI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3245549 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Dynamic ordering transitions of liquid crystals driven by interfacial complexes formed between polyanions and amphiphilic polyamines.
Kinsinger Michael I MI Buck Maren E ME Campos Fernando F Lynn David M DM Abbott Nicholas L NL
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 20081201 23
We report the design of an amphiphilic polyamine (polymer 1) based on poly(2-alkenyl azlactone) that strongly couples the formation of polyelectrolyte complexes at aqueous/liquid crystal (LC) interfaces to ordering transitions in the LC. We demonstrate that the addition of a strong anionic polyelectrolyte to aqueous solutions in contact with polymer 1-laden LC interfaces (prepared by Langmuir-Schaefer transfer of monolayers of polymer 1 onto micrometer-thick films of nematic LC) triggers orderin ...[more]
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