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Optically responsive dry cholesteric liquid crystal marbles
Date
2024-10-01
Author
Kocaman, Ceren
Batır, Özge
Büküşoğlu, Emre
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Dry liquid crystal marbles are structures that consist of cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) droplets prepared by the mixture of chiral-doped thermotropic LCs encapsulated by cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) that have been dried under ambient conditions. The characterizations revealed that CLC droplets were successfully encapsulated by self-standing CNC shells and responsive to the external gaseous stimulus. The dry LC marbles offer several advantages over previously reported LC-based gas sensors, such as fast response against minor external stimuli, and ease of handling, which make them particularly attractive for practical applications in sensing. We demonstrate the use of these marbles for detecting toluene vapor, a common industrial solvent and pollutant, which we also use to understand the response characteristics. The dry CLC marbles exhibit a significant response to toluene vapor with a detection limit below 500 ppm, attributed to the change of pitch size of the helical structure of CLC droplets induced by the toluene vapor. The CNC-capsulated CLC droplets were stable in emulsion for up to two weeks, and their dried form exhibited a sensitive response upon toluene exposure. The real-time experiments revealed that the LC marbles can be used multiple times without a significant loss of sensitivity, where 90 % of the maximum response was observed at 13.3 ± 4.7 s. These dry LC marbles can also be utilized in other areas, including drug delivery, optical devices, and biosensors.
Subject Keywords
Cellulose nanocrystals
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Cholesteric liquid crystal
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Encapsulation
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Responsive materials
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110001
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Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.05.194
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C. Kocaman, Ö. Batır, and E. Büküşoğlu, “Optically responsive dry cholesteric liquid crystal marbles,”
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
, vol. 671, pp. 374–384, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85194295102&origin=inward.