Graphene and other 2D colloids: liquid crystals and macroscopic fibers

Y Liu, Z Xu, W Gao, Z Cheng, C Gao - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐dimensional colloidal nanomaterials are running into renaissance after the
enlightening researches of graphene. Macroscopic one‐dimensional fiber is an optimal …

Nanoparticles in liquid crystals and liquid crystalline nanoparticles

O Stamatoiu, J Mirzaei, X Feng, T Hegmann - Liquid crystals: materials …, 2012 - Springer
Combinations of liquid crystals and materials with unique features as well as properties at
the nanoscale are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to recent developments, ie, since …

Water‐stable lithium metal anodes with ultrahigh‐rate capability enabled by a hydrophobic graphene architecture

L Dong, L Nie, W Liu - Advanced materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Implementing the utilization of lithium metal in actual processing and application conditions
is essential for next‐generation high‐energy batteries at a practical level. However, the …

Nanocomposite Hydrogel Actuators with Ordered Structures: From Nanoscale Control to Macroscale Deformations

X Yao, H Chen, H Qin, HP Cong - Small Methods, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible intelligent actuators with the characteristics of flexibility, safety and scalability, are
highly promising in industrial production, biomedical fields, environmental monitoring, and …

[HTML][HTML] Novel trends in lyotropic liquid crystals

I Dierking, A Martins Figueiredo Neto - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
We introduce and shortly summarize a variety of more recent aspects of lyotropic liquid
crystals (LLCs), which have drawn the attention of the liquid crystal and soft matter …

Reactivity-controlled preparation of ultralarge graphene oxide by chemical expansion of graphite

L Dong, Z Chen, S Lin, K Wang, C Ma… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The production of ultralarge graphene oxide (ULGO) is hindered by sluggish diffusion
process of the oxidizing agents into graphite layers, as well as sheet fracture resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] A liquid-crystalline hexagonal columnar phase in highly-dilute suspensions of imogolite nanotubes

E Paineau, MEM Krapf, MS Amara… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Liquid crystals have found wide applications in many fields ranging from detergents to
information displays and they are also increasingly being used in the 'bottom-up'self …

Lyotropic liquid crystal of polyacrylonitrile-grafted graphene oxide and its assembled continuous strong nacre-mimetic fibers

Z Liu, Z Xu, X Hu, C Gao - Macromolecules, 2013 - ACS Publications
Liquid crystals (LCs) of pristine graphene oxide (GO), a kind of novel two-dimensional (2D)
macromolecule, have been discovered recently, opening an avenue to high performance …

In-depth insights into the key steps of delamination of charged 2D nanomaterials

S Rosenfeldt, M Stöter, M Schlenk, T Martin… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
Delamination is a key step to obtain individual layers from inorganic layered materials
needed for fundamental studies and applications. For layered van der Waals materials such …

Aqueous suspensions of natural swelling clay minerals. 1. Structure and electrostatic interactions

E Paineau, I Bihannic, C Baravian, AM Philippe… - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this article, we present a general overview of the organization of colloidal charged clay
particles in aqueous suspension by studying different natural samples with different …