Scientific duo of carbon nanotubes and nematic liquid crystals

M Rahman, W Lee - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
With an emphasis on the rectified device performance and related liquid-crystal (LC)
properties, this paper presents a timely review of the literature on recent development and …

Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals: fundamental properties and applications

L Lisetski, M Soskin, N Lebovka - … : Proceedings, Kyiv, Ukraine, 23-27 May …, 2015 - Springer
The structure and properties of liquid crystalline suspensions filled by carbon nanotubes
(CNTs) are critically reviewed. Special attention is paid to interactions between CNTs and …

Nematic nanocomposites with enhanced optical birefringence

KK Vardanyan, ED Palazzo, RD Walton - Liquid Crystals, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The proper performance of electro-optical devices utilising liquid crystals (LCs) requires
materials with high diffraction efficiency, ie with high optical/dielectric anisotropy, low …

Cyanobiphenyl liquid crystal composites with gold nanoparticles

KK Vardanyan, DM Sita, RD Walton, WM Saidel… - RSC …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
We study composites of mainly room temperature nematic cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals
(nCB with n= 5, 6, 7, and 8) with gold nanoparticles (GNP). We report that doped GNP …

Multicomponent nematic systems with doped gold nanoparticles

KK Vardanyan, A Thiel, B Fickas, A Daykin - Liquid Crystals, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
We study the dispersion of gold nanoparticles in binary systems of two homologues of
cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals (n CB with n= 5, 6). Using differential scanning calorimetry …

Liquid crystalline cyanobiphenyl homologues doped with gold nanoparticles

KK Vardanyan, DM Sita, RD Walton, IS Gurfinkiel… - Liquid …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The following paper reviews our study of the dispersion of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) in
different homologues of cyanobiphenyl (CB) liquid crystals (n CB with n= 5, 6, 7). We show …

Effects of carbon nanotubes on electro-optical properties of dye-doped nematic liquid crystal

ME Abbasov, GO Carlisle - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2012 - Springer
Electro-optical effects of planar nematic liquid crystal cells doped with dye and carbon
nanotubes (CNTs) were investigated by utilizing the absorption property of the dye. Voltage …

Orientation in nematic liquid crystals doped with orange dyes and effect of carbon nanoparticles

A Alicilar, F Akkurt, N Kaya - Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Some properties of nematic liquid crystal E7 doped with two disperse orange dyes used
together and effect of addition of carbon nanoparticles (single walled carbon nanotube or …

Phase transitions, order parameters and threshold voltages in liquid crystal systems doped with disperse orange dye and carbon nanoparticles

F Akkurt, N Kaya, A Alicilar - Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
At the first part of this work, three different textile dyes (disperse orange 11, 13 and 37) were
separately doped (1% w/w) to the nematic liquid crystal (E7). Single‐walled nanotube and …

Alignment and reorientation in nematic liquid crystals doped with red dye and carbon nanotube

N Kaya, F Akkurt, A Alicilar - Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Carbon …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Four different dyes (Methyl red, Disperse red 1, 13 and 60) were separately doped to each of
four different nematic liquid crystals (E7, E8, E63 and ZLI-1132). Their solubilities, textures …