Liquid crystals enable chemoresponsive reconfigurable colloidal self-assembly

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3945-3946

  Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; DIPOLE; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; NOTE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77749240004     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000312107     Document Type: Note

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