Aqueous liquid crystals of graphene oxide

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2908-2915

  Xu, Zhen ^a   Gao, Chao ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; liquid crystal; nematic; orientational ordering; phase transition

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS; AVERAGE DIAMETER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSIVE FORCES; GRAPHENE SHEETS; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; LIGHT OPTICAL MICROSCOPIES; MASS CONCENTRATION; MASS FRACTION; NANO-OBJECTS; NEMATIC; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NEMATIC PHASE; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERING; POLYDISPERSITY INDICES; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SALT CONCENTRATION; SELF ASSEMBLED MATERIAL; SINGLE LAYER; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING;

CRYSTALS; DISPERSIONS; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE BEHAVIOR; PHASE DIAGRAMS; POLYDISPERSITY; RHEOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEAR FLOW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING; ZETA POTENTIAL;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 79955421225     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200069w     Document Type: Article

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