Alignment of liquid crystals doped with Nickel nanoparticles containing different morphologies

Advanced Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 5779-5784

  Zhao, Dongyu ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Cui, Xiaopeng ^b   Tian, Yu ^a   Guo, Lin ^a   Yang, Huai ^c  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

alignment; liquid crystals; Ni nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

HOMEOTROPIC; LC ALIGNMENT; NI NANOPARTICLES; NICKEL NANOPARTICLES;

ADSORPTION; CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES;

ALIGNMENT;

METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; NICKEL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NICKEL; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 83755220023     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201102611     Document Type: Article

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