Phase-dependence of gold nanoparticle dispersibility in blue phase and chiral nematic liquid crystals

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 842-852

  Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Inoue, Kenta ^a   Kubo, Hitoshi ^a   Ozaki, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTALS; CHIRAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CHOLESTERIC PHASIS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE; LOCAL SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCES; UV VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; GOLD; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84880407984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000842     Document Type: Article

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