Hydrophobic gold nanoparticles via silane conjugation: Chemically and thermally robust nanoparticles as dopants for nematic liquid crystals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1988, 2013, Pages

  Mirzaei, Javad ^a   Urbanski, Martin ^b   Kitzerow, Heinz S ^b   Hegmann, Torsten ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry   (Germany)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Doping; Electro optic properties; Liquid crystal alignment; Nematic liquid crystals; Silanized gold nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MIXTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

DECAY TIME; DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; ELECTRO-OPTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROOPTICAL PROPERTIES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NPS; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; SILANIZED; SMECTIC-A PHASIS; THERMALLY STABLE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84874683649     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0256     Document Type: Article

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