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Nanorods: Discotic Liquid Crystal‐Functionalized Gold Nanorods: 2‐ and 3D Self‐Assembly and Macroscopic Alignment as well as Increased Charge Carrier Mobility in Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystal Hosts Affected by Molecular Packing and π–π Interactions (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2015)
Author(s) -
Feng Xiang,
SosaVargas Lydia,
Umadevi S.,
Mori Taizo,
Shimizu Yo,
Hegmann Torsten
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201570051
Subject(s) - nanorod , materials science , discotic liquid crystal , liquid crystal , texture (cosmology) , doping , hexagonal crystal system , crystal (programming language) , nanotechnology , charge carrier , crystallography , optoelectronics , image (mathematics) , chemistry , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
On page 1180, T. Hegmann and team show that gold nanorods decorated with discotic liquid crystals self‐assemble into nanorod ribbons both in thin films on TEM grids as well as in the bulk. These nanorods can be aligned with over 75% efficiency based on the calculated order parameter and enhance the charge carrier mobility in the parent discotic liquid crystal host. The image shows the texture of the hexagonal columnar liquid crystal host H6TP doped with the functionalized gold nanorods at 1% by weight.