We wish to determine the effect of various stabilisers on anisotropic pigment particles that are being developed for use in liquid crystal composites. The SANS method uses the Porod region a proposed by Crowley and Gladman. It is proposed to look at sets of particles in organic solvents with various stabilisers to monitor both the surface coverage and layer thickness. Various concentrations of polymer will be added to the particles in dodecane and polymer coverage and layer thickness will be determined. Suspensions of particles with short chain stabiliser molecules will also be prepared in organic solvent, again determining both the surface coverage and thickness. The overall aim is to establish why some stabilizers produce high orientational ordering of the particles and some do not.