Nanostructure, anisotropic

Ikeda, K, Takase, M., Sawai, Y, Nahika, H., Murakoshi, K. and Uosaki, K. (2007) Hyper-Raman scattering enhanced hy anisotropic dimer plasmons on artificial nanostructures./. Chem. Phys., 127, 111103/1-111103/4. 

Examples. 2D SAXS/WAXS experiments on highly anisotropic polymer materials during melting and crystallization can be used to visualize and understand the evolution of nanostructure [56,57], Transformations of biopolymers in solution, e.g., virus crystallization can be studied in situ [58], It is possible to study solidification mechanisms of spider silk [59], or the self-assembly of micelles on a time-scale of milliseconds [60],... 

Opportunities and Limits. If we intend to obtain a clearer look on nanostructure than the one the CLD is able to offer, we can try to get rid of the orientation smearing - either by considering materials with a special topology (layer stacks), or by studying anisotropic materials. 

In practical application to common isotropic polymer materials the IDF frequently exhibits very broad distributions of domain thicknesses. At the same time fits of the IDF curve to the well-known models for the arrangement of domains (cf. Sect. 8.7) are not satisfactory, indicating that the existing nanostructure is more complex. In this case one may either tit a more complex model85 on the expense of significance, or one may switch to the study of anisotropic materials and display their nanostructure in a multidimensional representation, the multidimensional CDF. Complex domain topology is more clearly displayed in the CDF than in the IDF. The CDF method is presented in Sect. 8.5.5. 

The aggregates created by amphiphiles are usually spherical (as in the case of micelles), but may also be disc-like (bicelles), rodlike, or biaxial (all three micelle axes are distinct) (Zana, 2008). These anisotropic self-assembled nanostructures can then order themselves in much the same way as liquid crystals do, forming large-scale versions of all the thermotropic phases (such as a nematic phase of rod-shaped micelles). 

The growth of Pc-based, 1-D nanostructures on gold nanoparticles has also been achieved via vapor-phase transport, in a process in which the gold nanoparticles act as nucleation sites for the perfluorinated CuPc molecules and promote their anisotropic growth leading to very uniform, 1-D structures with high aspect ratio (Fig.28) [212],... 

FIGURE 8. Schematic representation of isotropic and anisotropic organization of nanostructured hybrid xerogels... 

These experimental results should help to find the most convenient theoretical approaches for spectra simulation and getting more characteristic parameters of anisotropic magnetic nanostructures in composite materials and biological objects. 

Anisotropic ionic conductivities were also observed for nanostructured 2D films consisting of polymer 12 [28]. The conductivities parallel to the layer are... 

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