Highly ordered carbon nanotube nematic liquid crystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3272-3278

  Puech, Nicolas ^a   Blanc, Christophe ^b   Grelet, Eric ^a   Zamora Ledezma, Camilo ^c   Maugey, Maryse ^a   Zakri, Cécile ^a   Anglaret, Eric ^b   Poulin, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; YARN;

ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; MATERIAL VISCOSITY; ORDER PARAMETER; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; POLARIZED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE WALL NANOTUBES; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79952017162     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp1102077     Document Type: Article

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