Circular Dichroism of Chiral Nematic Films of Cellulose Nanocrystals Loaded with Plasmonic Nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10377-10385

  Querejeta Fernández, Ana ^a   Kopera, Bernd ^a   Prado, Karen S ^a   Klinkova, Anna ^a   Methot, Myriam ^b   Chauve, Grégory ^b   Bouchard, Jean ^b   Helmy, Amr S ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b FPINNOVATIONS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cellulose nanocrystals; chiral nematic; chiral plasmonics; circular dichroism; Mueller matrix ellipsometry

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CELLULOSE FILMS; CHARACTERIZATION; COMPOSITE FILMS; DICHROISM; ELLIPSOMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS;

CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; CHIRAL NEMATICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTRA; MUELLER MATRIX ELLIPSOMETRY; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; PLASMONICS; PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITES;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; DICHROISM; FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 84945905991     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04552     Document Type: Article

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