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SUBMITTER: Agarwal A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4025930 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agarwal Ankit A Sidiq Sumyra S Setia Shilpa S Bukusoglu Emre E de Pablo Juan J JJ Pal Santanu Kumar SK Abbott Nicholas L NL
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20130402 16
This paper advances the design of stimuli-responsive materials based on colloidal particles dispersed in liquid crystals (LCs). Specifically, thin films of colloid-in-liquid crystal (CLC) gels undergo easily visualized ordering transitions in response to reversible and irreversible (enzymatic) biomolecular interactions occurring at the aqueous interfaces of the gels. In particular, LC ordering transitions can propagate across the entire thickness of the gels. However, confinement of the LC to sm ...[more]