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

Figure 7

(a, b) Scanning electron microscopy images of a dried coating made by shearing a 1.1 vol.% Ag-H₂O dispersion at 200 s⁻¹; the images show a worm-like texture with all the liquid crystalline domains generally aligned in the shearing direction. (c) Optical image of the same coating under reflective cross-polarized light using a 20x 0.45 NA objective with 2x additional magnification in front of the camera. Scale bars are 1 μm in (a) and (b) and 20 μm in (c).

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