Vassilios Tzitzios

TL;DR: Systematic high-resolution calorimetric studies reveal thatblue phase III is effectively stabilized in a wide temperature range by mixing surface-functionalized nanoparticles with chiral liquid crystals, yielding a robust method to stabilize blue phases, especially blue phase III.

TL;DR: Cobalt platinum polypod-like nanostructures were synthesized by thermolytic reduction of Pt(acac)2 and Co(CH3COO)2 in oleylamine at 250 degrees C and reveal a coercive field of 525 and 1200 Oe at room temperature and 5 K.

TL;DR: In this paper, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were decorated with Au, Pt and Rh nanoparticles coated with oleylamine, which improved the colloidal dispersion of SWNTs in chloroform and other organic solvents.

TL;DR: CoPt nanoparticles with an average size of 3 nm and narrow distribution were synthesized by chemical reduction of Co(CH(3)COO)(2) and Pt(acac) by polyethyleneglycol-200, which results in coercivity up to 6 kOe at room temperature and 9 k Oe at 5 K because of the high magnetocrystalline anisotropy of the tetragonal structure.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the twist-grain boundary phase in a chiral liquid crystal is driven by direct interactions between surface-functionalized CdSe quantum dots and screw dislocations.