Microfluidic formation of pH responsive 5CB droplets decorated with PAA-b-LCP

Waliullah Khan; Jin Ho Choi; Gyu Man Kim; Soo Young Park

doi:10.1039/c1lc20402e

Microfluidic formation of pH responsive 5CB droplets decorated with PAA-b-LCP

Waliullah Khan, Jin Ho Choi, Gyu Man Kim, Soo Young Park

Kyungpook National University

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Abstract

We are reporting for the first time the pH responsiveness of liquid crystal (LC) microdroplets decorated with an amphiphilic block copolymer of PAA-b-LCP. We successfully demonstrated the adsorption of block copolymer on LC droplets by fluorescence microscopy and pH response to the radial-to-bipolar orientational change of the LC droplets by changing pH from 12 to 2 through the polarized optical microscope (POM). We believe that our results may pave the way for the generation of monodisperse droplets decorated by various amphiphilic block copolymers which respond to several kinds of the external stimuli. These developments may be important for potential applications of the LC droplets in sensing and encapsulation fields.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3493-3498
Number of pages	6
Journal	Lab on a Chip
Volume	11
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c1lc20402e
State	Published - 21 Oct 2011

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