Charge-driven liquid-crystalline behavior of ligand-functionalized nanorods in apolar solvent Jeongmo Kim, Zijun Wang, Khalid Lahlil, Patrick Davidson, Thierry Gacoin and Jongwook Kim Eur. Phys. J. E, 46 9 (2023) 86 Published online: 25 September 2023 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00345-z