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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Main Authors: Jacek K. Wychowaniec, Maria Iliut, Bartłomiej Borek, Christopher Muryn, Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk, Steve Edmondson, Aravind Vijayaraghavan
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f8abbffe3d0840b9a4345f73d5dfcfcd
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