Colloidal dispersion of gold nanorods: Historical background, optical properties, seed-mediated synthesis, shape separation and self-assembly

V Sharma, K Park, M Srinivasarao - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2009 - Elsevier
The color of colloidal dispersions of gold particles in a fluid, typically water, varies from red to
blue, depending upon the shape and size of particles. The color and optical properties of …

Computer simulations of biaxial nematics

R Berardi, L Muccioli, S Orlandi, M Ricci… - Journal of Physics …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Biaxial nematic (N b) liquid crystals are a fascinating condensed matter phase that has
baffled, for more than thirty years, scientists engaged in the challenge of demonstrating its …

Hard-body models of bulk liquid crystals

L Mederos, E Velasco… - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Hard models for particle interactions have played a crucial role in the understanding of the
structure of condensed matter. In particular, they help to explain the formation of oriented …

Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipses in two dimensions

X Zheng, P Palffy-Muhoray - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2007 - APS
The distance of closest approach of hard particles is a key parameter of their interaction and
plays an important role in the resulting phase behavior. For nonspherical particles, the …

Liquid Crystalline Phases from Polymer‐Functionalized TiO2 Nanorods

S Meuer, P Oberle, P Theato, W Tremel… - Advanced …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A general approach for the functionalization of inorganic nanoparticles with polymers is
presented. The polymers for functionalization are designed to possess an anchor block and …

Structural Description of Pressure-Induced Amorphization in

DA Keen, AL Goodwin, MG Tucker, MT Dove… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
ZrW 2 O 8 undergoes a high-pressure amorphization transition above 1.5 GPa to a phase
which is recoverable to ambient conditions. Reverse Monte Carlo modeling of neutron and x …

Modeling and understanding closed-loop liquid− liquid immiscibility in aqueous solutions of poly (ethylene glycol) using the SAFT-VR approach with transferable …

GNI Clark, A Galindo, G Jackson, S Rogers… - …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The closed-loop liquid− liquid fluid phase equilibria of aqueous solutions of poly (ethylene
glycol)(PEG) binary mixtures are studied using the statistical associating fluid theory for …

Cholesteric order in systems of helical Yukawa rods

HH Wensink, G Jackson - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider the interaction potential between two chiral rod-like colloids which consist of a
thin cylindrical backbone decorated with a helical charge distribution on the cylinder surface …

Tracking three-phase coexistences in binary mixtures of hard plates and spheres

R Aliabadi, M Moradi, S Varga - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The stability of demixing phase transition in binary mixtures of hard plates (with thickness L
and diameter D) and hard spheres (with diameter σ) is studied by means of Parsons-Lee …

Extensional rheology of entangled granular materials

SV Franklin - Europhysics Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the response of collections of U-shaped granular particles to extensional loading.
Cylindrical samples elongate in bursts, as existing particle entanglements yield and new …