Morphology and electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystal/Aerosil® nanoparticle composites

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1095-1100

  Mormile, Sabrina ^a   De Filpo, Giovanni ^a   Chidichimo, Giuseppe ^a   Nicoletta, Fiore Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosil ; Light scattering; Nanoparticle composites

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949136994     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290802376115     Document Type: Article

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