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SUBMITTER: Zhang M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8746361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Manlin M Lindner-D'Addario Michael M Roohnikan Mahdi M Toader Violeta V Lennox Robert Bruce RB Reven Linda L
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20211229 1
Ethylene oxide oligomers and polymers, free and tethered to gold nanoparticles, were dispersed in blue phase liquid crystals (BPLC). Gold nanospheres (AuNPs) and nanorods (AuNRs) were functionalized with thiolated ethylene oxide ligands with molecular weights ranging from 200 to 5000 g/mol. The BPLC mixture (ΔT<sub>BP</sub> ~6 °C) was based on the mesogenic acid heterodimers, n-hexylbenzoic acid (6BA) and n-<i>trans</i>-butylcyclohexylcarboxylic acid (4-BCHA) with the chiral dopant (R)-2-octyl 4 ...[more]