Composites of liquid crystalline nickel phthalocyanine with gold nanoparticles: Liquid crystalline behaviour and optical properties

In this work, the composites of discotic tetra-substituted nickel phthalocyanine with hexadecylamine coated gold nanoparticles and uncapped gold nanoparticles deposited by metal organic chemical vapour deposition were obtained and studied for the first time. The influences of the incorporation of gold nanoparticles into the ordered matrix of hexagonal columnar mesophase of the substituted phthalocyanine on the liquid crystalline behaviour,...