Liquid crystals of aqueous, giant graphene oxide flakes†
Abstract
We report the observation of liquid crystals formed by giant graphene oxide flakes (aspect ratio above 10 000) suspended in
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a Department of Physics and Astronomy, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, USA
b
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, USA
E-mail:
mp@rice.edu
c Department of Chemistry, R. E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas, USA
d
Department of Physics, 2000 Colorado Ave, Boulder, Colorado, USA
E-mail:
ivan.smalyukh@colorado.edu
e Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program, and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, 2000 Colorado Ave, Boulder, Colorado, USA
f Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA
We report the observation of liquid crystals formed by giant graphene oxide flakes (aspect ratio above 10 000) suspended in
B. Dan, N. Behabtu, A. Martinez, J. S. Evans, D. V. Kosynkin, J. M. Tour, M. Pasquali and I. I. Smalyukh, Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 11154 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM06418E
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