%0 Journal Article
%T Orientational Order of Carbon Nanotube Guests in a Nematic Host Suspension of Colloidal Viral Rods
%+ Centre de recherches Paul Pascal (CRPP)
%+ Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science
%+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C)
%+ Faculteit Technische Natuurkunde
%+ Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica
%A Puech, Nicolas
%A Dennison, Matthew
%A Blanc, Christophe
%A van Der Schoot, Paul
%A Dijkstra, Marjolein
%A van Roij, René
%A Poulin, Philippe
%A Grelet, Eric
%Z 5 pages
%< avec comité de lecture
%Z L2C:12-081
%@ 0031-9007
%J Physical Review Letters
%I American Physical Society
%V 108
%P 247801
%8 2012-06-15
%D 2012
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.247801
%K Liquid crystals structures
%K Colloids
%Z 61.30.Dk, 61.30.Gd, 82.70.Dd
%Z Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Biological Physics [physics.bio-ph]Journal articles
%X In order to investigate the coupling between the degrees of alignment of elongated particles in binary nematic dispersions, surfactant stabilized single-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been added to nematic suspensions of colloidal rodlike viruses in aqueous solution.We have independently measured the orientational order parameter of both components of the guest-host system by means of polarized Raman spectroscopy and by optical birefringence, respectively. Our system allows us therefore to probe the regime where the guest particles (CNTs) are shorter and thinner than the fd virus host particles. We show that the degree of order of the CNTs is systematically smaller than that of the fd virus particles for the whole nematic range. These measurements are in good agreement with predictions of an Onsager-type second-viral theory, which explicitly includes the flexibility of the virus particles, and the polydispersity of the CNTs.
%G English
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%U https://hal.science/hal-00709314
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