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ReviewNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases from Anisotropic Nanomaterials.

Ingo Dierking, Shakhawan Al-Zangana

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Review in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ingo DierkingSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. ingo.dierking@manchester.ac.uk.
Shakhawan Al-ZanganaCollege of Education, University of Garmian, Kalar 46021, Iraq. shakhawan.al-zangana@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1851-5574

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid crystals are an integral part of a mature display technology, also establishing themselves in other applications, such as spatial light modulators, telecommunication technology, photonics, or sensors, just to name a few of the non-display applications. In recent years, there has been an increasing trend to add various nanomaterials to liquid crystals, which is motivated by several aspects of materials development. (i) addition of nanomaterials can change and thus tune the properties of the liquid crystal; (ii) novel functionalities can be added to the liquid crystal; and (iii) the self-organization of the liquid crystalline state can be exploited to template ordered structures or to transfer order onto dispersed nanomaterials. Much of the research effort has been concentrated on thermotropic systems, which change order as a function of temperature. Here we review the other side of the medal, the formation and properties of ordered, anisotropic fluid phases, liquid crystals, by addition of shape-anisotropic nanomaterials to isotropic liquids. Several classes of materials will be discussed, inorganic and mineral liquid crystals, viruses, nanotubes and nanorods, as well as graphene oxide.

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cellulose nanocrystalclayDeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)graphenegraphene oxideinorganic nanoparticleliquid crystallyotropicnanorodnanotubenanowiretobacco mosaic virus (TMV)

Identifiers

PMID28974025
PMCPMC5666470

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