Cover Picture: A Novel Method for Fixing the Anisotropic Orientation of Dispersed Organic Nanocrystals in a Magnetic Field (Adv. Mater. 2/2005)

✍ Scribed by Y. Kaneko; S. Shimada; T. Fukuda; T. Kimura; H. Yokoi; H. Matsuda; T. Onodera; H. Kasai; S. Okada; H. Oikawa; H. Nakanishi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 272 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0935-9648
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200590008

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The cover illustrates trans‐4‐[4‐(dimethylamino)]stilbazolium p‐toluenesulfonate (DAST) nanocrystals as white rectangular parallelepipeds anisotropically oriented by an applied magnetic field. As reported by Kaneko and co‐workers on p. 160, the oriented DAST nanocrystals dispersed in lauryl acrylate monomer can be easily fixed by UV curing in a magnetic field. The inset displays a picture of the cured DAST dispersions with a quarter for scale.