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  • Alignment of nanotubes in nematic liquid crystals [Elektronski vir]
    Popa-Nita, Vlad ; Kralj, Samo ; Cvetko, Matej, 1981-
    We have studied the coupling interaction between liquid crystal (LC) moleculesand nanoparticles (NPs) in LC+NPs mixtures. Using a simple phenomenological approach we derive possible structures of the ... coupling term for strongly anisotropic NPs. The coupling term includes an interaction term promoting the mutual ordering of the LC molecules and the NPs, and the Flory-Huggins-type term enforcing the phase separation. Both contributions exhibit the same scaling dependence on the diameter of NPs. These terms only exist for a finite degree of nematic LC ordering.
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2009
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 16945160