Interaction of metallized tubules with electromagnetic radiation
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 68 (7) , 3688-3693
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.346332
Abstract
Several diacetylenic lecithins form tubular microstructures (tubules) when their liposomes are cooled through the chain-melting transition. Recently, the tubules have been metal plated by an electroless technique. This paper reports on the interaction of permalloy coated tubules with electromagnetic radiation. At 10 vol % loading of tubules in an epoxy matrix has a real dielectric constant ε′≊50 at a frequency of 9.5 GHz. Simple electrodynamics accounts well for the observed results. Far higher values of ε′ may be achievable with longer tubules and with improved metal coatings.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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