Abstract
The optical properties of lyotropic liquid crystals formed by a multilayer stack of lipid membranes were studied. It was observed that the lack of correlation between these undulations leads to a gradual loss of long-range order that results in concomitant loss of intensity of diffracted light. The liquid crystals act as a diffraction grating which can be useful for the practical manipulation of light. It was shown that the order of a lamellar liquid crystal formed by a bilayer membranes can be actively controlled by the motion of charged colloidal particles.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 11-12 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Nature Materials |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Jan 2005 |