<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Duggal, Muskan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Khatavi, Santosh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Yelamaggad, Channabasaveshwar V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Shankar Rao, Doddamane Sreenivasamurthy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Krishna Prasad, Subbarao</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Prasad, Bhagavatula L. V.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vastly increased mesophase range due to superstructure formation from in situ prepared gold nanoparticles with liquid crystalline ligands: toward enhanced optoelectronic applications</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ACS Applied Nano Materials</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fano-resonance</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">gold nanoparticles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">liquid crystals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">nanosoftcomposites</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">superstructure</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MAY </style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10340-10350</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;
	Gold nanoparticle (Au NP)-liquid crystal (LC) composites have gained considerable interest in developing cutting-edge electro-optical materials. This study introduces an innovative synthetic approach that significantly augments the capabilities of Au NP-LC composites by utilizing an amine-functionalized LC as both a reducing and capping agent in the refined Brust-Schiffrin method. In its standard form, this method yields Au NP-LC composites with appealing features like improved clearing temperature. However, the optical characteristics do not display any additional features and resemble simple LC-ligand functionalized Au NP, attributed here to the surplus LC employed to obtain the dual capabilities of reduction and capping. Thus, it was gratifying to observe a dramatic enhancement in mesophase stability with the removal of just a few percentages of excess LC, which is attributed to a remarkable and unprecedented one-dimensional superstructure formation. Furthermore, the removal of surplus LC caused the composite to exhibit Fano-like resonance in the UV-vis spectrum, a noteworthy optical feature likely resulting from dynamic plasmonic interactions, including plasmon-polariton interactions and lattice plasmon modes. Thus, the simple yet robust protocol employed yields Au NP-LC composites with an ultrawide thermal range of the mesophase that paves the way for realizing next-generation electro-optic materials featuring enhanced performance and response.&lt;/p&gt;
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