Liquid crystalline behavior and related properties of colloidal systems of inorganic oxide nanosheets

Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1734-1761

  Nakato, Teruyuki ^a   Miyamoto, Nobuyoshi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clay; Colloid; Inorganic nanosheet; Layered compound; Liquid crystal; Semiconductor photocatalyst; Sol gel transition

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SHAPES; COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; LAYERED COMPOUND; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; SEMICONDUCTING OXIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOCATALYST; SOL-GEL TRANSITIONS;

CLAY; COLLOIDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; SOL-GELS;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 78650179748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma2041734     Document Type: Article

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