Organic solvent-based graphene oxide liquid crystals: A facile route toward the next generation of self-assembled layer-by-layer multifunctional 3D architectures

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3981-3990

  Jalili, Rouhollah ^a   Aboutalebi, Seyed Hamed ^a   Esrafilzadeh, Dorna ^a   Konstantinov, Konstantin ^a   Moulton, Simon E ^a   Razal, Joselito M ^a   Wallace, Gordon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; layer by layer composite; liquid crystal; liquid crystal in organic solvent; self assembled composite

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE OXIDES; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; LAYER-BY-LAYERS; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE; N-CYCLOHEXYL-2-PYRROLIDONE; N-DIMETHYL FORMAMIDE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; TETRA-HYDROFURAN;

ACETONE; ELASTIC MODULI; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TENSILE STRENGTH; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ORGANIC SOLVENTS;

GRAPHITE; NANOTUBE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

GRAPHITE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDES; SOLVENTS;

EID: 84878326830     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305906z     Document Type: Article

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