Osvaldo Trigueiro Neto, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Paulo Henrique Michels-Brito, Konstanse Kvalem Seljelid, Andrew Akanno, Bruno Telli Ceccato, Rini Padinjakkara Ravindranathan, Tomás S. Plivelic, Leander Michels, Josef Breu, Kenneth D. Knudsen, Jon Otto Fossum
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Abstract
Aqueous liquid suspensions of high aspect ratio 2D clay nanosheets were investigated using small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The high aspect ratio of synthetic fluorohectorite clays allows for investigation of liquid crystalline orientational order for relatively large nanosheet spacings, in the range which can produce structural coloration, thus providing two handles for determining the nanosheet spacings: SAXS and visible color. Various clay concentrations were investigated, and good agreement with previous work on structural coloration from such suspensions was obtained. Particular attention is given to the confinement caused by the container geometry, where both cylindrical and flat confinements were investigated. In both cases, the SAXS data suggest coherent regions that have a nematic inter-orientational distribution that surprisingly is linked to the container geometry, which apparently determines the efficiency of packing of the suspension. For both geometries, the analysis suggests that these coherent regions have a 1D lamellar periodic intra-structure with uniform nanosheet spacing determined by the clay concentration and a typical correlation length in the range of 200 to 500 nm.
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Colloid and Polymer Science - a leading international journal of longstanding tradition - is devoted to colloid and polymer science and its interdisciplinary interactions. As such, it responds to a demand which has lost none of its actuality as revealed in the trends of contemporary materials science.