Abstract
Nickel bowl-like nanoparticles have first been synthesized by a magnetic self-assembly process stabilized by polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) without any sphere-like materials as templates. A trace of doped bowls can induce liquid crystal (LC) molecules into a perfect planar alignment, attributable to their bowl-like shape and magnetic self-assembly into a 1D structure. It would provide a novel method of establishing LCs alignment by doping special nanostructured materials.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 8389-8391 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
| Volume | 133 |
| Issue number | 22 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 8 Jun 2011 |
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