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Cover Picture: Liquid Crystalline Peptide Nanowires (Adv. Mater. 22/2007)
Author(s) -
Han T. H.,
Kim J.,
Park J. S.,
Park C. B.,
Ihee H.,
Kim S. O.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200790087
Subject(s) - nanowire , materials science , liquid crystal , electric field , sonication , colloid , nanotechnology , liquid crystalline , electrode , phase (matter) , chemical engineering , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Abstract Liquid‐crystalline peptide nanowires consisting of aromatic dipeptides are easily prepared by a sonication in a volatile organic solvent, report Hyotcherl Ihee, Sang Ouk Kim, and co‐workers on p. 3924. The colloidal nematic liquid crystalline phase of the rigid nanowires allows for a macroscopically ordered morphology of the nanowires under an external electric field. The cover image presents a broad field view of nanowires oriented by an electric field between two electrodes.