Textures in polygonal arrangements of square nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal matrices

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 13335-13341

  Phillips, Paul M ^a   Mei, N ^a   Soulé, Ezequiel R ^a,b   Reven, Linda ^a   Rey, Alejandro D ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DEFECTS; CHARGE BALANCE EQUATION; DEFECT TEXTURES; DISCRETE MODELING; EXCESS ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOMEOTROPIC; LANDAU-DE-GENNES MODEL; LATTICE SIZE; LOW ENERGIES; NANOPARTICLE ORDERING; NEMATIC MATRIX; ORIENTATION FIELDS; PARTICLE ARRANGEMENTS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS;

DEFECTS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE; TEXTURES;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL;

ABSORPTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 80054926927     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la203226g     Document Type: Article

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