Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50968#.VFG4FVfHRK0 Author(s) Tanmay Bera , Jiyu Fang * Affiliation(s) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA . ABSTRACT It is known that the adsorption of surfactants at the liquid crystal (LC)/aqueous interface can induce a bipolar-to-radial director configuration of LC droplets dispersed in aqueous solution. In this paper, we study the effect of charged polyelectrolyte-coating on the interaction of surfactants and LC droplet cores by observing the director configuration of the LC droplet cores as a function of surfactant concentrations. It is found that surfactants can p...
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