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Formation of liquid crystalline phases in colloidal suspensions of K$$_{4}$$Nb$$_{6}$$O$$_{17}$$ nanosheet

Yamaguchi, Daisuke; Miyamoto, Nobuyoshi*; Koizumi, Satoshi; Nakato, Teruyuki*; Yagi, Naoto*; Hashimoto, Takeji

Two new experimental evidences were obtained in lyotropic liquid crystalline (LC) phase behavior consisting of a model charged colloidal platelike particle system yielded from layered niobate crystal of K$$_{4}$$Nb$$_{6}$$O$$_{17}$$. Firstly, the effect of mean lateral size ($$overline{D}$$$$_{lat}$$) of the particle was examined at a constant volume fraction of the particle ($$phi$$) where a LC phase coexisted with an isotropic (I) phase. The coexisting LC phase was abruptly transformed from nematic to lamellar (L) as $$overline{D}$$$$_{lat}$$ was decreased. Secondly, the $$phi$$ dependence of the interparticle distance (d) was examined along the I-L transition. In the coexistence region, d showed nearly the same value between those two phases and varied with $$phi$$, being out of the usual lever rule.

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