A molecular and thermodynamic view of the assembly of gold nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1258-1263

  Milette, Jonathan ^a   Toader, Violeta ^a   Soulé, Ezequiel R ^b   Lennox, R Bruce ^a   Rey, Alejandro D ^a   Reven, Linda ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC FORCE; EXCLUDED VOLUME; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MATERIALS INNOVATIONS; MESOGENES; MESOSCALE MODELING; NANOPARTICLE STRUCTURES; NEMATICS; NONCONSERVED ORDER PARAMETERS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; QUASI-PERIODIC; REVERSIBLE FORMATION; SELF-ORGANIZE; STRUCTURED FLUIDS; THERMODYNAMIC MODELING; VARIABLE TEMPERATURE;

DEUTERIUM; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84873164497     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la304189n     Document Type: Article

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