Lyotropic liquid crystals employed for alignment of carbon nanotubes

One of the most stimulating current topics in liquid crystal (LC) research is the study of how the self-organizing nature of these anisotropic fluids can be exploited for nanotemplating purposes. On the one hand, a variety of interesting nanoparticles and mesoporous structures have been syn-thesized using LC templates [1-3], on the other, externally introduced nanoparticles can be pat