Liquid crystal microcapillary-based sensors for affordable analytical applications

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2022-04-01

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Kurt, Elif
Büküşoğlu, Emre

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SOFT MATTER

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https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00131d

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Liquid Crystal-Templated Synthesis of Mesoporous Membranes with Predetermined Pore Alignment Karausta, Asli; Büküşoğlu, Emre (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018-10-03) We demonstrate that polymeric films templated from liquid crystals (LCs) provide basic design principles for the synthesis of mesoporous films with predetermined pore alignment. Specifically, we used LC mixtures of reactive [4-(3-acryloyoxypropyloxy) benzoic acid 2-methyl-1,4-phenylene ester (RM257)] and nonreactive [4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (5CB)] mesogens confined in film geometries. The LC alignment was maintained by functionalization of the surfaces contacting the films during polymerization. Through p...
Liquid Crystal Templates Combined with Photolithography Enable Synthesis of Chiral Twisted Polymeric Microparticles AKDENİZ, BURAK; Büküşoğlu, Emre (Wiley, 2019-08-01) Liquid crystals (LC), when combined with photolithography, enable synthesis of microparticles with 2D and 3D shapes and internal complexities. Films of nematic LCs are prepared using mixtures of reactive (RM257) and non-reactive mesogens with controlled alignment of LCs at the confining surfaces, photo-polymerized the RM257 using a photomask, and then extracted the unreacted mesogens to yield the polymeric microparticles. The extraction results in a controlled anisotropic shrinkage amount dependent on the R...
Liquid crystal-templated synthesis of polymeric microparticles with complex nanostructures Akdeniz, Burak; Büküşoğlu, Emre; Department of Chemical Engineering (2019) Liquid crystals (LC), when combined with photolithography, enable synthesis of microparticles with two- and three-dimensional shapes and internal complexities. We prepared films of nematic LCs using mixtures of reactive (RM257) and non-reactive mesogens (E7) with controlled alignment of LCs at the confining surfaces, photopolymerized the RM257 using a photomask, and then extracted the unreacted mesogens to yield polymeric microparticles. The extraction resulted in a controlled anisotropic shrinkage with an ...

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E. Kurt and E. Büküşoğlu, “Liquid crystal microcapillary-based sensors for affordable analytical applications,” SOFT MATTER, vol. 18, pp. 4009–4016, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97621.