  A major challenge in the field of nanosciences is the assembly of anisotropic
nano objects into aligned structures. The way the objects are aligned
determines the physical properties of the final material. In this work, we take
a closer look at the shapes of orientation distributions of aligned anisotropic
nano and macro objects by examining previously published works. The data shows
that the orientation distribution shape of anisotropic objects aligned by
shearing and other commonly used methods varies size-independently between
Laplace and Gaussian depending on the distribution width and on the cohesivity
of the particles.
