Issue 18, 2014
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Soft Matter

Multiphase coexistence and destabilization of liquid crystalline binary nanosheet colloids of titanate and clay†

Teruyuki Nakato,*a   Yoshie Yamashita,b   Emiko Mouria  and  Kazuyuki Kurodab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Applied Chemistry, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
E-mail: nakato@chem.kyutech.ac.jp

b Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-0051, Japan

Abstract

A plate–plate binary colloid system of photocatalytically active titanate and inert clay nanosheets shows macroscopically separated multiphase coexistence. Two liquid crystalline phases and one isotropic phase coexist at high titanate and low clay concentrations whereas the colloids are destabilized at high clay concentrations.

Graphical abstract: Multiphase coexistence and destabilization of liquid crystalline binary nanosheet colloids of titanate and clay

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3SM52311J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Sep 2013
Accepted
24 Feb 2014
First published
27 Feb 2014

Soft Matter, 2014,10, 3161-3165

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Multiphase coexistence and destabilization of liquid crystalline binary nanosheet colloids of titanate and clay

T. Nakato, Y. Yamashita, E. Mouri and K. Kuroda, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 3161 DOI: 10.1039/C3SM52311J

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