Controlled Nanoparticle Targeting and Nanoparticle-Driven Nematic Structural Transition

Figure 2

Two-dimensional plot for different positions of the NP enforcing melted local ordering. One sees that NP affects position (they attract each other) of the melted finger-tip if they are close enough. Black colour indicates uniaxial ordering. Increasingly white colour reveals increasing degree of biaxiality. The distance describes the length of the finger-tip in absence of the NP.

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