The design and investigation of room temperature thermotropic nematic gold nanoparticles.
Nematic gold nanoparticles, covered with a monolayer of calamitic mesogens and short hydrocarbon chains, have been synthesized and investigated. The materials are chemically stable and exhibit nematic phase behavior at room temperature.
Cseh
Liliana
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Department of Chemistry, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, United Kingdom.
Mehl
Georg H
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