Abstract
We have discovered that the long-term aging of the hexagonal columnar liquid-crystal phase of polydisperse gibbsite platelets leads to fractionated crystallization, that is, to the formation of coexisting columnar crystals with different periods. This process was revealed by microradian X-ray diffraction demonstrating the splitting of the Bragg intercolumnar reflections into sequences of sharper reflections. The fractionated crystallization was observed in a number of samples of sterically stabilized as well as charge-stabilized polydisperse gibbsite platelets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 6898-6901 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Langmuir |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 18 May 2010 |
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