Orientations of liquid crystals in contact with surfaces that present continuous gradients of chemical functionality

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2357-2363

  Clare, Brian H ^a   Efimenko, Kirill ^b   Fischer, Daniel A ^c   Genzer, Jan ^b   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT SURFACES; GRADIENTS; GRAFTED SEMIFLUORINATED CHAINS; SEMIFLUORINATED SILANES;

COMPOSITION; DATA RECORDING; DIFFUSION; HYDROXYLATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SILANES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33744810368     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm052537n     Document Type: Article

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