journal article·2025-11Open access

Forming Kinetically‐Trapped Liquid Crystalline Spherical Nanoparticles During Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly (Small 45/2025)

Yunjie Zhang, Zhiqing Mei, Yuan Ji, Xiaran Miao, Xiuhong Li, Fenggang Bian, Saiyun Yu, Xiao Zhang, Xinyu Zeng, Guoxing Liao, LinGe Wang

Small· Volume 21· Issue 45

Abstract

Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles In article number 2506077, Guoxing Liao, LinGe Wang, and co-workers prepared spherical liquid crystalline nanoparticles using a liquid crystalline polymer as the core-forming block during polymerization-induced self-assembly. Further analysis confirmed the straight main-chain conformation of the core-forming block, which exhibits unique birefringence as lyotropic liquid crystal behaviour in nanoparticle formations under polarized optical microscopy.
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OpenAlex topics: Liquid Crystal Research Advancements · Advanced Materials and Mechanics · Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization

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Affiliations

South China Advanced Institute for Soft Matter Science and Technology School of Emergent Soft Matter Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional and Intelligent Hybrid Materials and Devices Guangdong Basic Research Center of Excellence for Energy and Information Polymer Materials State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China

Shanghai Advanced Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai 201210 China

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