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Hobbie EK. Optical anisotropy of nanotube suspensions. J Chem Phys. 2004;121(2):1029-37doi: 10.1063/1.1760079.
Hobbie, E. K. (2004). Optical anisotropy of nanotube suspensions. The Journal of chemical physics, 121(2), 1029-37. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1760079
Hobbie, Erik K. "Optical anisotropy of nanotube suspensions." The Journal of chemical physics vol. 121,2 (2004): 1029-37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1760079
Hobbie EK. Optical anisotropy of nanotube suspensions. J Chem Phys. 2004 Jul 08;121(2):1029-37. doi: 10.1063/1.1760079. PMID: 15260637.
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J Chem Phys. 2004 Jul 08;121(2):1029-37. doi: 10.1063/1.1760079.

Optical anisotropy of nanotube suspensions.

The Journal of chemical physics

Erik K Hobbie

Affiliations

  1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 15260637 DOI: 10.1063/1.1760079

Abstract

A semimacroscopic model of an optically anisotropic nanotube suspension is derived perturbatively from Maxwell's equations in a dielectric medium. We calculate leading-order expressions, valid in the dilute and semidilute limits, for the intrinsic and form contributions to the complex dielectric tensor in terms of the volume fraction, mean orientation, aspect ratio, optical anisotropy, and optical contrast of the nanotubes. The birefringence and dichroism are derived explicitly to leading order in fluctuations, and the connection with depolarized light scattering is established. The results are generalized to include tube deformation.

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