Shear-Thinning Characteristics of Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Nanoparticles
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Abstract
This work investigated changes in the physical properties of nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) upon doping with nanoparticles. Shear viscosity measurements demonstrated the shear-thinning of typical NLCs following the addition of small amounts of nanoparticles at approximately 1 wt. %. However, neither the birefringence nor the dielectric anisotropy was significantly affected at these levels of doping. The shear-thinning appears to result from the locally ordered alignment of the NLCs in the vicinity of the nanoparticles rather than from reductions in the bulk order parameters.
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OpenAlex topics: Liquid Crystal Research Advancements · Surfactants and Colloidal Systems · Material Dynamics and Properties
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, 940-2188 Niigata, Japan
Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, 060-8628 Sapporo, Japan
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