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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2013 Apr 19;135(27):9972–9975. doi: 10.1021/ja4022182

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A, E, I) PL, (B, F, J) BF, and (C, G, K) combined Fluo and BF micrographs of bipolar nematic 5CB droplets observed in a water/glycerol (90% v/v) mixture, with a diameter of (A, B, C) 9.9 μm, (E, F, G) 6.2 μm, and (I, J, K) 4.8 μm, and exhibiting a single 1-μm-diameter fluorescent PS colloid adsorbed at their surface (bright spot in C, G, K; the white arrows indicate free PS particles). Scale bars: 5 μm. (D, H, L) The corresponding illustrations of the director field configuration (dark lines) with the two “boojum” defects at the droplet poles; the purple spot represents the PS colloid (at a pole).