Ouskova, E. Buluy, O. Blanc, C. Dietsch, Hervé Mertelj, A. 2010-07-13 We explored how to increase liquid crystal sensitivity to external magnetic fields. Suspensions consisting of a mixture of liquid crystal and spindle type mono-dispersed hematite nano-particles at concentrations lower than 1 wt% were prepared. The Freacuteedericksz transition threshold for the suspensions appeared to be lower than for the pure liquid crystal. It was proved that adding canted antiferromagnetic nano-particles in liquid crystals increased their sensitivity to magnetic field while no change of the basic mesogenic properties of the matrix occurred. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/301693 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/301693/files/die_emo.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1080/15421401003796108 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. - 2010, vol. 525, p. 104 - 111 Liquid crystal magnetic suspension spindle type hematite particles info:eu-repo/classification/udc/54 Enhanced magneto-optical properties of suspensions of spindle type mono-dispersed hematite nano-particles in liquid crystal http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501