Lyotropic liquid crystalline phases of an amphiphilic block copolymer are constructed and characterized in an ionic liquid with comparison of component and temperature effects.
A new and simple method is used to control formation of gold nanoparticles in lyotropic liquid crystal. Triangular or hexagonal nano- and micro-plates can be obtained in PEO–PPO–PEO-based hexagonal liquid crystals after adding a small amount of cationic surfactant, CTAB. All plates are single crystals and mostly characterized by orientation along the [-111] direction. Their sizes are even longer than 10 μm. The selective adsorption of CTAB on certain crystallographic facets is the main point of supposed mechanism.
Positively charged silver nanoparticles capped by cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) are prepared in aqueous solution. The structure of capping agents on Ag particles is systematically characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA). It suggests that CTAB molecules form a bilayer shell on Ag surface with a 1:5 rough ratio of inner/outer molecules.
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