2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Studies on liquid crystal encapsulated silica nanoparticles

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23651123
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Nanomaterials/Nanobioscience
Research Institution	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Principal Investigator	SHIMIZU Yo 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, ユビキタスエネルギー研究部門, 研究グループ長 (40357223)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	MIYOSHI Hirokazu 徳島大学, 学内共同利用施設等, 教授 (90229906) FUJIWARA Masahiro 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究, ユビキタスエネルギー研究部門・ナノ機能合成グループ, 上級主任研究員 (90357921)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	ナノカプセル / 液晶 / シリカ / 閉じ込め系
Research Abstract	The methodology to fabricate a silica nano-particles encapsulating a room-temperature nematic liquid crystal (5CB: 4-pentyl-4’-cyanobiphenyl) was studied. The core-shell and Stober methods were tried and so small amount of 5CB was encapsulated. However, a

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