Figure 7: SAXS measurements of aligned imogolite nanotube suspensions.
From: A liquid-crystalline hexagonal columnar phase in highly-dilute suspensions of imogolite nanotubes
(a–c) nematic (φ=0.12%) and (d–f) columnar (φ=0.22%) DW Ge-INT suspensions submitted to an electric field E=100 V mm−1 at 500 kHz. (a,d) 2D-SAXS patterns, (b,e) structure factor Q I(Q) and (c,f) azimuthal profiles recorded along a circle going through the diffuse scattering maximum (white arrow in a and d). In e, the hk indices refer to the 2D hexagonal reciprocal lattice peaks (red lines) of Ge-INT in the columnar phase with lattice parameter a=71.3 nm.
