Comparative study of n-dodecyl tetraethylene monoether lyotropic liquid crystals incorporated with graphene and graphene oxide.

@article{Wang2014ComparativeSO,
  title={Comparative study of n-dodecyl tetraethylene monoether lyotropic liquid crystals incorporated with graphene and graphene oxide.},
  author={Lin Wang and Xia Xin and Mengzhou Yang and Xin Ma and Zhenyu Feng and Rui Chen and Jinglin Shen and Shiling Yuan},
  journal={Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP},
  year={2014},
  volume={16 38},
  pages={
          20932-40
        }
}
Two kinds of carbon materials, i.e., graphene and graphene oxide (GO), were successfully incorporated into a lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) matrix formed by n-dodecyl tetraethylene monoether (C12E4). The properties of graphene-C12E4 and GO-C12E4 LLC composites were characterized by UV-vis absorption, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations, polarized optical microscopy (POM) observations, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and rheological measurements. SAXS results indicate that… 
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