Garbovskiy Yuriy
Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050, USA.
Nanomaterials (Basel). 2020 Feb 25;10(3):403. doi: 10.3390/nano10030403.
Nanomaterials in liquid crystals are a hot topic of contemporary liquid crystal research. An understanding of the possible effects of nanodopants on the properties of liquid crystals is critical for the development of novel mesogenic materials with improved functionalities. This paper focuses on the electrical behavior of contaminated nanoparticles in liquid crystals. More specifically, an analogy between electrolytes and ion-generating nanomaterials in liquid crystals is established. The physical consequences of this analogy are analyzed. Under comparable conditions, the number of ions generated by nanomaterials in liquid crystals can be substantially greater than the number of ions generated by electrolytes of similar concentration.
液晶中的纳米材料是当代液晶研究的一个热门话题。了解纳米掺杂剂对液晶性质的可能影响对于开发具有改进功能的新型介晶材料至关重要。本文重点研究了液晶中受污染纳米颗粒的电学行为。更具体地说，建立了电解质与液晶中产生离子的纳米材料之间的类比关系。分析了这种类比的物理后果。在可比条件下，液晶中纳米材料产生的离子数量可能大大超过类似浓度电解质产生的离子数量。
