Chemical Oscillation and Morphological Oscillation in Catalyst-Embedded Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Gels

Copyright © 2020 Li, Cortes, Zhang and Zhang..

Liquid crystalline gels offer promising means in generating smart materials due to programmable mechanics and reversible shape changes in response to external stimuli. We demonstrate a simple and convenient method of constructing catalyst-embedded lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) gels and achieve chemomechanical oscillator by converting chemical waves in Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. We observe the directed chemical oscillations on LLC sticks accompanied by small-scale oscillatory swellings-shrinkages that are synchronized with the chemical waves of an LLC stick. To amplify the mechanical oscillations, we further fabricate small LLC fibers and achieve macroscopically oscillatory bending-unbending transition of the LLC fiber driven by a BZ reaction.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in chemistry - 8(2020) vom: 28., Seite 583165

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Guanying [VerfasserIn]
Cortes, William [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qizheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Ye [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Belousov-zhabotinsky reaction
Chemical oscillation
Journal Article
Lyotropic liquid crystalline gels
Morphological oscillation
Non-covalent catalyst-embedment

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Date Revised 17.11.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fchem.2020.583165

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317624725