Uniaxial alignment of nanoconfined columnar mesophases

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2627-2632

  Mouthuy, Pierre Olivier ^a   Melinte, Sorin ^a   Geerts, Yves H ^b   Jonas, Alain M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PHASE INTERFACES; SURFACE TENSION;

COLUMNAR MESOPHASES; NETWORK CELL DIMENSIONS; NONHOMOGENEITY; UNIAXIAL ALIGNMENT;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34948905376     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl0710102     Document Type: Article

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