Blue phase III widening in CE6-dispersed surface-functionalised CdSe nanoparticles

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1419-1426

  Cordoyiannis, George ^a,b   Losada Pérez, Patricia ^a   Tripathi, Chandra Shekhar Pati ^a   Rožič, Brigita ^b   Tkalec, Uroš ^b   Tzitzios, Vassilios ^c   Karatairi, Eva ^c,d   Nounesis, George ^c   Kutnjak, Zdravko ^b   Muševič, Igor ^b   Glorieux, Christ ^a   Kralj, Samo ^b,e   Thoen, Jan ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Adiabatic scanning calorimetry; Blue phases; Liquid crystals; Nanoparticles; Polarising microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649292468     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2010.519057     Document Type: Article

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