Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2010,6, No. 74, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.74
impact of NPs on orientational ordering of LCs for appropriate concentrations of NPs is reminiscent to the influence of quenched random fields which locally enforce a biaxial ordering.
Keywords: liquid crystals; nanoparticles; orientational order; quencheddisorder; symmetry breaking; Introduction
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Figure 1:
Nematic orientational correlation function G(r) for different values of x (x = 0.01 and 0.25), N = ...