Nematic anchoring on carbon nanotubes

被引：82

作者：

Basu, Rajratan ^{[1
]}

Iannacchione, Germano S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Worcester Polytech Inst, Dept Phys, Order Disorder Phenomena Lab, Worcester, MA 01609 USA

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2009年 / 95卷 / 17期

关键词：

LIQUID-CRYSTALS; CAPACITANCE BRIDGE; ALIGNMENT;

D O I：

10.1063/1.3256013

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

A dilute suspension of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in a nematic liquid crystal (LC) does not disturb the LC director. Due to a strong LC-CNT anchoring energy and structural symmetry matching, CNT long axis follows the director field, possessing enhanced dielectric anisotropy of the LC media. This strong anchoring energy stabilizes local pseudonematic domains, resulting in nonzero dielectric anisotropy in the isotropic phase. These anisotropic domains respond to external electric fields and show intrinsic frequency response. The presence of these domains makes the isotropic phase electric field-responsive, giving rise to a large dielectric hysteresis effect. (C) 2009 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3256013]

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