PMID- 25812081
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150904
LR  - 20150429
IS  - 1744-6848 (Electronic)
IS  - 1744-683X (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 18
DP  - 2015 May 14
TI  - Physico-chemical confinement of helical nanofilaments.
PG  - 3653-9
LID - 10.1039/c5sm00417a [doi]
AB  - Helical nanofilaments (HNFs) have attracted much interest because of their unique 
      optical properties, but there have been many hurdles to overcome in using them 
      for the practical applications due to their structural complexity. Here we 
      demonstrate that the molecular configuration and layer conformation of a 
      modulated HNF (HNFs(mod)) can be studied using a physicochemical confinement 
      system. The layer directions affected by the chemical affinity between the 
      mesogen and surface were drastically controlled in surface-modified nanochannels. 
      Furthermore, an in situ experiment using grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction 
      (GIXD) was carried out to investigate in detail the structural evolution through 
      thermal transitions. The results demonstrate that the HNF(mod) structure can be 
      perfectly controlled for functional HNF device applications, and a combined 
      system with chemical and physical confinement effects will be helpful to better 
      understand the fundamentals of soft matter.
FAU - Lee, S
AU  - Lee S
AD  - Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology and KINC, KAIST, Daejeon, 305-701, 
      Republic of Korea. nandk@kaist.ac.kr.
FAU - Kim, H
AU  - Kim H
FAU - Shin, T J
AU  - Shin TJ
FAU - Tsai, E
AU  - Tsai E
FAU - Richardson, J M
AU  - Richardson JM
FAU - Korblova, E
AU  - Korblova E
FAU - Walba, D M
AU  - Walba DM
FAU - Clark, N A
AU  - Clark NA
FAU - Lee, S B
AU  - Lee SB
FAU - Yoon, D K
AU  - Yoon DK
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Soft Matter
JT  - Soft matter
JID - 101295070
EDAT- 2015/03/27 06:00
MHDA- 2015/03/27 06:01
CRDT- 2015/03/27 06:00
PHST- 2015/03/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/03/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/03/27 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/c5sm00417a [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soft Matter. 2015 May 14;11(18):3653-9. doi: 10.1039/c5sm00417a.