Phase equilibrium and structure formation in gold nanoparticles - Nematic liquid crystal composites: Experiments and theory

Soft Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2860-2866

  Soulé, Ezequiel R ^a,b   Milette, Jonathan ^b   Reven, Linda ^b   Rey, Alejandro D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALAMITICS; CELLULAR NETWORK; ENTHALPIC EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; ISOTROPIC INTERACTION; ISOTROPIC PHASE; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; LIGAND MONOLAYERS; MEAN-FIELD; MESOGENICS; MIXED MONOLAYERS; MIXED-LIGANDS; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; STRUCTURE FORMATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; GOLD; LIGANDS; MONOLAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; SOLUBILITY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84857753509     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm07091j     Document Type: Article

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