Active Control of the Anchoring of 4′-Pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) at an Aqueous-Liquid Crystal Interface by Using a Redox-Active Ferrocenyl Surfactant

Langmuir

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 8629-8637

  Brake, Jeffrey M ^a   Mezera, Andrew D ^a   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL;

ADSORPTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0142216273     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la034469u     Document Type: Article

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