Nematic director-induced switching of assemblies of hexagonally packed gold nanorods

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 4424-4429

  Thomas, Michael R ^a   Klein, Susanne ^b   Greasty, Robert J ^a   Mann, Stephen ^a   Perriman, Adam W ^a   Richardson, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electric field alignment; gold nanorods; liquid crystal; self assembly; small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD ALIGNMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; GOLD NANOROD; HYBRID COMPLEXES; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; RECONFIGURABLE CONTROL; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; THERMOTROPIC NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANORODS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

PLASMONS;

GOLD; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; LIQUID CRYSTAL; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COLLOIDS; GOLD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NANOTUBES; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84864984684     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201319     Document Type: Article

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