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- Title
Guest-host interaction in ferroelectric liquid crystal-nanoparticle composite system.
- Authors
Singh, Dharmendra; Gupta, Swadesh; Yadav, Satya; Sharma, P; Pandey, A; Manohar, Rajiv
- Abstract
The present paper deals with the characterization of a ferroelectric liquid crystal-nanoparticle (FLC-NP) composite system. The dielectric, electrical and polarization property of the FLC-NP composite system have been studied as a function of temperature and frequency. Ferroelectric Cu-doped ZnO (Cu-ZnO) nanoparticles have been added to the pure ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) Felix 17/100. The nanoparticles are bigger in size as compared to FLC molecules; therefore, they distort the existing geometry of FLC matrix and set up an antiparallel correlation with the dipole moments of the host FLC molecules. This antiparallel correlation of guest-host geometry reduces the net ferroelectricity of the composite system and modifies all the physical properties of the pure FLC. The change in properties has been analysed and explained in the light of guest-host interaction.
- Subjects
HOST-guest chemistry; FERROELECTRIC liquid crystals; NANOPARTICLES; COMPOSITE materials; POLARIZATION spectroscopy; DIELECTRIC properties
- Publication
Bulletin of Materials Science, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 3, p511
- ISSN
0250-4707
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12034-014-0698-6