Orientational order of carbon nanotube guests in a nematic host suspension of colloidal viral rods

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Puech, Nicolas ^a   Dennison, Matthew ^b   Blanc, Christophe ^c   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^d,e   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^b   Van Roij, René ^e   Poulin, Philippe ^a   Grelet, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF ORDER; ELONGATED PARTICLES; GUEST-HOST SYSTEMS; NEMATIC HOSTS; NEMATIC RANGES; OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; POLARIZED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RODLIKE VIRUS; SURFACTANT-STABILIZED;

CARBON NANOTUBES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VIRUSES;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84862529508     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.247801     Document Type: Article

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