Unusual double four-lobe textures generated by the motion of carbon nanotubes in a nematic liquid crystal.
Unusual double four-lobe nematic liquid crystal (LC) textures were observed in the carbon nanotube (CNT)-doped nematic LC under electric field. Through the electro-optical studies in a wide range of vertical electric fields in the direction of the long axis of the LC molecules, it was realized that the double four-lobe nematic LC textures were formed in the range of 120 to 160 V(rms) at 1 Hz. The formation of these unusual double four-lobe nematic LC textures could originate from the electric field-induced movement of CNTs and the subsequently frustrated reorientation of LCs.
Jeong
Seok Jin
SJ
Sureshkumar
Palanivelu
P
Jeong
Kwang-Un
KU
Srivastava
Anoop K
AK
Lee
Seung Hee
SH
Jeong
Seok Ho
SH
Lee
Young Hee
YH
Lu
Ruibo
R
Wu
Shin-Tson
ST