Dynamic behavior of hybrid organic-inorganic composites: Liquid crystals confined in SBA-15 mesoporous materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4799, Issue , 2002, Pages 230-238

  Frunza, Ligia ^a   Kosslick, Hendrik ^b   Schönhals, Andreas ^c   Pitsch, Irene ^b   Frunza, Stefan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR KATALYSE E V AN DER UNIVERSITÄT ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confined liquid crystals; Cyanobiphenyls; Dielectric measurements; Mesoporous molecular sieves

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIEVES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ORGANIC INORGANIC COMPOSITES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0036989538     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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