Alignment behaviour of liquid crystals on ethyl cellulose films with banded-texture structure

Polymer International

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-268

  Yan, Lifeng ^a   Zhu, Qingshi ^a   Ikeda, Tomiki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Disclination line; Ethyl cellulose (EC); Liquid crystal alignment

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELLULOSE; COATINGS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES;

THIN COATINGS;

POLYMERS;

CELLULOSE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; TEXTURE;

COATING; CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATION; FILM;

EID: 0037327622     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.1088     Document Type: Article

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