Visualization of liquid crystal director fields within carbon nanotube cavities

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Jian, Kengqing ^a   Hurt, Robert H ^a   Sheldon, Brian W ^a   Crawford, Gregory P ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE CAVITIES; ELASTIC THEORY; LIQUID CRYSTAL DIRECTOR FIELDS; THERMAL CARBONIZATION;

CARBONIZATION; INFILTRATION; NAPHTHALENE; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYMERS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 33646177514     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2197319     Document Type: Article

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