Self-alignment of dye molecules in micelles and lamellae for three-dimensional imaging of lyotropic liquid crystals

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 7446-7452

  Liu, Qingkun ^a,b   Beier, Corinne ^a   Evans, Julian ^a   Lee, Taewoo ^a   He, Sailing ^b,c   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILIC DYE; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CALAMITICS; CHOLESTERIC PHASE; CHOLESTERICS; COLUMNAR HEXAGONAL PHASE; DEVELOPABLE DOMAINS; DIRECTOR STRUCTURE; DISCLINATIONS; DISCOTICS; DISLOCATION CORE; DYE MOLECULE; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPIES; FLUORESCENCE TRANSITIONS; LAMELLAR PHASE; LINE DEFECTS; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; LYOTROPIC MESOPHASES; LYOTROPICS; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC TACTOIDS; OILY STREAKS; POLARIZING MICROSCOPY; SCHLIEREN TEXTURES; SELF ALIGNMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL VISUALIZATION; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; BURGERS VECTOR; CRYSTALS; DEFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIQUIDS; MICELLES; MOLECULES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79959273246     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la200842z     Document Type: Article

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