Stable liquid crystalline phases of colloidally dispersed exfoliated layered niobates.
Colloidally dispersed niobium oxide nanosheets obtained by exfoliation of layered niobates HNb(3)O(8) and HTiNbO(5) formed stable liquid crystalline phases; their liquid crystallinity was dependent on the niobate species exfoliated.
Nakato
Teruyuki
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Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering (BASE), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16 Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan. tnakat@cc.tuat.ac.jp.
Miyamoto
Nobuyoshi
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Harada
Akiko
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