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SUBMITTER: Iwashita Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4893746 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iwashita Yasutaka Y Kimura Yasuyuki Y
Scientific reports 20160606
Orientational order in condensed matter plays a key role in determining material properties such as ferromagnetism, viscoelasticity or birefringence. We studied purely orientational ordering in closely-packed one-patch colloidal particles confined between flat substrates, where the particles can only rotate and are ordered via the sticky interaction between the patches. For the first time, we experimentally realized a rich variety of mesoscopic patterns through orientational ordering of colloids ...[more]