Light-driven reversible alignment switching of liquid crystals enabled by azo thiol grafted gold nanoparticles

ChemPhysChem

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1852-1856

  Xue, Chenming ^a   Xiang, Jie ^a   Nemati, Hossein ^a   Bisoyi, Hari Krishna ^a   Gutierrez Cuevas, Karla ^a   Wang, Ling ^a   Gao, Min ^a   Zhou, Shuang ^a   Yang, Deng Ke ^a   Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a   Urbas, Augustine ^b   Li, Quan ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

gold nanoparticles; liquid crystals; photoisomerization; reversible switching; stimuli responsive materials

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027935329     PISSN: 14394235     EISSN: 14397641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500194     Document Type: Article

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