Figure 6: Texture photographs of aligned imogolite suspensions.
From: A liquid-crystalline hexagonal columnar phase in highly-dilute suspensions of imogolite nanotubes

(a,b) nematic (φ=0.12%) and (c,d) columnar (φ=0.22%) DW Ge-INT suspensions before (a,c) and after (b,d) application of an electric field E=(100 V mm−1, 500 kHz). Scale bar, 100 μm.