Liquid crystals of carbon nanotubes and graphene

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

Volumn 371, Issue 1988, 2013, Pages

  Zakri, Cécile ^a,b   Blanc, Christophe ^c   Grelet, Eric ^a   Zamora Ledezma, Camilo ^d   Puech, Nicolas ^a   Anglaret, Eric ^c   Poulin, Philippe ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PAUL PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^d INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Graphene; Liquid crystal; Nematic; Order parameter; Organic electronics

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ALIGNED NANOTUBES; ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; MONODOMAINS; NANOCARBONS; NEMATIC; NEMATIC ORDERING; NOVEL MATERIALS; ORDER PARAMETER; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; POINT OF VIEWS; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; SURFACTANT MOLECULES; THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION; WATER BASED;

GRAPHENE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; GRAPHITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874721199     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0499     Document Type: Article

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