Nanoparticles: Complex and multifaceted additives for liquid crystals

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1495-1514

  Shivakumar, Umadevi ^a   Mirzaei, Javad ^a   Feng, Xiang ^a   Sharma, Anshul ^a   Moreira, Paulo ^a   Hegmann, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alignment; Electro optics; Nanocomposites; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863398229     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2011.605477     Document Type: Article

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