Lyotropic Mesophases with "Normal" and "Reserved" Two-dimensional Tetragonal Structure.

Identification of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophases

On the Swelling of Bicontinuous Lyotropic Mesophases

The swelling of sponge-like bicontinuous mesophases of bilayers of surfactant (or lipid) in water as a function of dilution is analyzed. Analytic formulae for the swelling are derived assuming ii) constant aggregate thickness and (it) fixed surface area per surfactant molecule at an imaginary surface located within the bilayer. Approximate swelling laws are derived for bicontinuous films and co...

Lyotropic mesophases as defects in binary mixtures

2014 The classification of defects in ordered media is applied to the case of binary mixtures. Stable defects must be surfaces, and, in that case, interfaces. For lyotropic systems, a negative surface energy leads to a maximization of the interface area. One thus obtains, with increasing surfactant concentration, micelles, and then liquid crystal phases which must be considered as ordered defec...

A Novel Structure for Optical Channel Drop Filter using Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals with Square Lattice

In the present paper a novel structure for optical channel drop filter (CDF) based on photonic crystal ring resonator with circular core has been proposed. In order to design the proposed CDF, the plan wave expansion (PWE) method is applied for calculation of band structure and photonic band gap while the transmission characteristics of proposed CDF have been calculated using the finite differe...

Colloidal nanoplatelets with two-dimensional electronic structure.

The syntheses of strongly anisotropic nanocrystals with one dimension much smaller than the two others, such as nanoplatelets, are still greatly underdeveloped. Here, we demonstrate the formation of atomically flat quasi-two-dimensional colloidal CdSe, CdS and CdTe nanoplatelets with well-defined thicknesses ranging from 4 to 11 monolayers. These nanoplatelets have the electronic properties of ...