Graphene chiral liquid crystals and macroscopic assembled fibres

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Xu, Zhen ^a   Gao, Chao ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SILICA GEL; GRAPHITE; OXIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTAL; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONDUCTANCE; FIBER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; TEXTILE FIBER; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; TEXTILE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDES; PHASE TRANSITION; SILICA GEL; TEXTILES; WATER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84455174701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1583     Document Type: Article

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