Elastic flow instabilities and macroscopic textures in graphene oxide lyotropic liquid crystals
Abstract Graphene oxide (GO) forms a well-aligned lyotropic liquid crystal (LC) phase in aqueous dispersions at relatively low concentrations. Under a remarkably wide range of shear rates, we report hitherto unobserved shear-induced polarized light image patterns, a Maltese cross combined with shear...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-01-01
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| Series: | npj 2D Materials and Applications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-020-00193-x |