Shape-dependent dispersion and alignment of nonaggregating plasmonic gold nanoparticles in lyotropic and thermotropic liquid crystals

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Qingkun ^a   Tang, Jianwei ^b   Zhang, Yuan ^a,b   Martinez, Angel ^a   Wang, Shaowei ^b   He, Sailing ^b   White, Timothy J ^c   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,d  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; POLARIZATION; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ANISOTROPIC SURFACES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MATRIX; LONG RANGE ORDERS; LYOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELING; PLASMONIC EFFECTS; PLASMONIC PROPERTIES;

PLASMONS;

COLLOID; GLASS; GOLD DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; MICELLE; MONOMETHOXYPOLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; PHOSMET;

ANISOTROPY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICELLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPY; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS; GOLD COMPOUNDS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHOSMET; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84901365269     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052505     Document Type: Article

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