| Fabrication of Discotic Colloids through Electrospray | ||
| Dawei Luo, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840, Manuel Marquez, Arizona State University; National Institute of Standards and Technology; Los Alamos National Laboratory and Zhengdong Cheng, Texas A&M University, Chemical Engineering Department, College Station, TX 77843 In this study, we pressent a novel mass production method of discotic wax particles using electrospray. The 1-eicosene wax was melt and added with an electrical conductive additive to increase its electric conductivity. Liquid wax was then flow through a metallic nozzle with applied high voltage, and broke into fine droplets, which were collected using SDS aqueous solution. After storage at 4 C for several weeks, wax particles experienced a shape transition into microdisks. Extended Abstract Status: Not Uploaded | ||