| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Novel liquid crystalline gold nano-particles and silica nano-particles have been synthesized in this study. The structures of liquid crystalline ligands used here were a side-on type and a side-end one. The phase transition behavior of these compounds has been studied by a differential scanning calorimetry and a polarizing optical microscope observation. The miscibility of the surface modified inorganic nano-particles with the low molar mass liquid crystal, 5CB, has been also studied. Furthermore, the ER effect of the surface modified gold nano-particles dispersed in 5CB was measured. The characteristics of a dispersed type ER fluid was observed for the composite of the side-on type surface modified gold nano-particles with 5CB in addition to the characteristics of a homogeneous ER fluid.
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