Liquid Crystalline Behavior and Related Properties of Colloidal Systems of Inorganic Oxide Nanosheets
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Nanosheet Colloid as a Colloidal System of Anisotropic Particles
3. Liquid Crystallinity of the Anisotropic Colloids
3.1. Theoretical backbone
3.2. Historical overview
3.3. Clay colloids
3.4. Layered phosphate
3.5. Layered niobates and titanates
3.6. Layered hydroxides
3.7. Phase separation in multi-component anisotropic colloids
4. Ordering of the Nanosheets by External Forces
5. Physical Gelation of the Nanosheet Colloids
5.1. Gelation of clay colloid
5.2. Consideration by classical theorems of viscosity
5.3. Structural model of gelled clay colloids
5.4. pH-induced gelation
6. Photochemical Functions of the Niobate Nanosheet Colloids
7. Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgment
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Nakato T, Miyamoto N. Liquid Crystalline Behavior and Related Properties of Colloidal Systems of Inorganic Oxide Nanosheets. Materials. 2009; 2(4):1734-1761. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma2041734
Chicago/Turabian StyleNakato, Teruyuki, and Nobuyoshi Miyamoto. 2009. "Liquid Crystalline Behavior and Related Properties of Colloidal Systems of Inorganic Oxide Nanosheets" Materials 2, no. 4: 1734-1761. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma2041734