Carbon nanotube-induced chirality in an achiral liquid crystal

被引：35

作者：

Basu, Rajratan ^{[1
]}

Boccuzzi, Krysta A. ^{[1
]}

Ferjani, Sameh ^{[1
]}

Rosenblatt, Charles ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Phys, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA

[2] Univ Paris 06, Lab FAST, F-91405 Orsay, France

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2010年 / 97卷 / 12期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

SMECTIC-A PHASE; TRANSITION; BEHAVIOR; SURFACE; DNA;

D O I：

10.1063/1.3492844

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

A small quantity of carbon nanotubes was dispersed in an achiral liquid crystal (LC), and the mixture was found to exhibit a weak degree of chirality. The induced chirality in the LC was probed by means of the electroclinic effect in the LC's smectic-A phase, which showed significant pretransitional behavior on approaching the smectic-A-smectic-C transition temperature from above. The results suggest that there is a net chirality associated with the carbon nanotubes, which is transmitted into the LC. (C) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3492844]

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