Confinement-sensitive optical response of cholesteric liquid crystals in electrospun fibers

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6627-6635

  Enz, Eva ^a   La Ferrara, Vera ^b   Scalia, Giusy ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b ENEA CR Portici   (Italy)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cholesteric liquid crystal; electrospun composite fibers; focused ion beam; photonic crystal; submicrometer confinement

Indexed keywords

CHANGE IN THICKNESS; COAXIAL ELECTROSPINNING; ELECTROSPUN COMPOSITE FIBERS; FLEXIBLE ARCHITECTURES; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; SELECTIVE REFLECTION; SUBMICROMETERS; WEAK EXTERNAL INFLUENCES;

DISSECTION; ELECTROSPINNING; FIBERS; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

COMPOSITES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPINNING;

ION; METAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; PROCEDURES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METALS; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84883213506     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn400066n     Document Type: Article

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