The recent discovery of liquid crystalline (LC) behavior of graphene oxide (GO) dispersions in various organic, and aqueous media brings added control to the assembly of larger structures using the chemical process approach.[1-3] The LC state can be used to direct the ordered assembly of nanocomponents in macroscopic structures via simple methods like wet-spinning.
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Jalili, R., Aboutalebi, S. Hamed., Esrafilzadeh, D., Shepherd, R. L., Chen, J., Aminorroaya-Yamini, S., Konstantinov, K., Minett, A. I., Razal, J. M. & Wallace, G. G. (2013). Wet-spinning of multifunctional graphene fibers using graphene oxide liquid crystals. Fiber Society Spring Technical Conference (pp. 248-249). Australia: The Fiber Society.