Forming Kinetically‐Trapped Liquid Crystalline Spherical Nanoparticles During Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly (Small 45/2025)
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.
Authors
- Linge Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5534-5466)
- Zhiqing Mei
- Guoxing Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1844-9546)
- Yunjie Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7702-8464)
- S. C. Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6120-9225)
- Xiaran Miao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4032-382X)
- Xiao Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9978-2350)
- Fenggang Bian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9432-3198)
- Xiuhong Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8482-2623)
- Yuan Ji
- Xinyu Zeng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6105-5056)
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (CN)
- McKinsey & Company (United States) (US)
- South China University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Small
- Published
- 2025-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.71152
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.43