Self-organization of particles with planar surface anchoring in a cholesteric liquid crystal

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 13502-13510

  Hijnen, Niek ^a   Wood, Tiffany A ^a   Wilson, David ^a   Clegg, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNING SURFACES; CHOLESTERIC PHASE; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HELICAL PITCH; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MESOGENS; PARTICLE AGGREGATION; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PARTICLE LOCATIONS; PITCH LENGTH; PLANAR SURFACE; RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SAMPLE CELL; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS;

BIREFRINGENCE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLUORESCENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 77955548671     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la101420c     Document Type: Article

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