Reversible change in alignment mode of nematic liquid crystals regulated photochemically by “command surfaces” modified with an azobenzene monolayer

Langmuir

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 1214-1216

  Ichimura, Kunihiro ^a   Suzuki, Yasuzo ^a   Seki, Takahiro ^a   Hosoki, Akira ^b   Aoki, Koso ^c  

^a Research Institute for Polymers and Textiles   (Japan)

^b DIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Toda Kogyo Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS--PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS--ISOMERIZATION; QUARTZ--SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES--MODIFICATION;

AZOBENZENE; COMMAND SURFACES; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE CELLS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; REVERSIBLE TRANSMITTANCE CHANGES;

CRYSTALS, LIQUID;

EID: 0024070642     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la00083a030     Document Type: Article

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