Rheology and Shear-Induced Textures of Silver Nanowire Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

Figure 2

Color transmission microscopy images of Ag-EG dispersions at different concentration under cross-polarized light using DIC and a 20x 0.45 NA objective. The total silver nanowire and nanoparticle aggregates concentrations were (a) 0.1 vol.%, (b) 0.6 vol.%, (c) 0.8 vol.%, (d) 2.2 vol.%, and (e) 2.8 vol.%. Scale bar value is 20 μm.

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