Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 11:20 AM
Room 2 (McKimmon Conference Center)
313

Fabrication, Self Assembly and Sedimentation of Wax Microdiks

Zhengdong Cheng, Andres Mejia, Peng He, and Dawei Luo. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

We demonstrated the mass production of monodisperse discotic suspensions using phase changing emulsions. Electrospray emulsification fabricates uniform wax droplets first and then collects using density and surface tension matching solvent to form emulsions. Surface tension and surface freezing control the shape of the colloids resulting in either read blood cell like particles or flat short circular cylindrical particles. We will discuss the colloidal phase transitions we observed via evaporation and sedimentation.


Web Page: che.tamu.edu/orgs/groups/Cheng/