Gold nanorods have received much attention due to their unique optical and electronic
properties which are dependent on their shape, size, and aspect ratio. This article covers in …

This review will first look at the various covalent strategies that have been developed to
attach drugs to gold nanoparticles as well as the strengths and limitations of such strategies …

More than four decades ago, Brochard and de Gennes proposed that colloidal suspensions
of ferromagnetic particles in nematic (directionally ordered) liquid crystals could form …

Colloids are abundant in nature, science, and technology, with examples ranging from milk
to quantum dots and the colloidal atom paradigm. Similarly, liquid crystal ordering is …

Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

The ability to manipulate small particles of matter using the forces of light, optical trap**,
forms the basis of a number of exciting research areas, spanning fundamental physics …

Hybrid nanomaterials are molecular or colloidal‐level combinations of organic and
inorganic materials, or otherwise strongly dissimilar materials. They are often, though not …

Besides nanostructured materials, individual particles are key elements for nanosciences.
The structuring properties of liquid crystals (LCs) are appealing to assemble them, to …

Viewing angle characteristics of displays and performance of electro-optic devices are often
compromised by the quality of dichroic thin-film polarizers, while dichroic optical filters …

I started the work on liquid crystal colloids around the year 2000 as a continuation of our
experiments on forces between surfaces in liquid crystals. We were using the atomic force …