Aligning and Reorienting Carbon Nanotubes with Nematic Liquid Crystals

By I. Dierking, G. Scalia, P. Morales, D. LeClere. 2004

321 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering

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In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

1. J. Lagerwall
2. Y. Garbovskiy
3. I. Glushchenko
4. D. Coursault
5. C. Blanc
6. E. Lacaze
7. G. Scalia
8. Jinlian Hu

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Y. Garbovskiy
2. I. Glushchenko
3. D. Coursault
4. C. Blanc
5. E. Lacaze
6. G. Scalia
7. J. Lagerwall
8. Jinlian Hu

Citations in the corpus

• A new era for liquid crystal research: Applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology (2012, background): “Initially only indirect proof of the alignment could be provided [69,70], but somewhat later direct in-situ verification of the nanotube orientation by means of polarized Raman spectroscopy confirmed without doubt the alignment effect [82,83].”
• Nano-Objects and Ions in Liquid Crystals: Ion Trapping Effect and Related Phenomena (2015, background): “The electrical properties of liquid crystals doped with carbon nanotubes (CNT) were explored in numerous papers [105,116,127–149].”
• Ordering nano- and microparticles assemblies with liquid crystals (2013, background): “For carbon nanotubes, in thermotropic LCs, aggregation usually occurs, leading to the formation of ropes, made of roughly parallel nanotubes.[130] They are supposed to be closed from each other with an inter-tube distance smaller than in case of pure van der Waals attraction, due to the added attrac”
• Polymers with aligned carbon nanotubes: Active composite materials (2008, background): “A similar effect has been demonstrated for pure liquid crystals [66,67], and also is known in the field of ferronematics [68].”