Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystals: Emerging Applications

Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 449-484

  Park, Heung Shik ^a   Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrostatic layer by layer LCLC deposition, and polycations; LCLC aggregates similar to B DNA, in stacking distance, line charge; LCLC applications, in dried films, internal polarizers; LCLCs, a broad, not well understood class of soft matter; Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals, emerging applications

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EID: 84886519940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118259993.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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