Anchoring of a nematic liquid crystal on a wettability gradient

Langmuir

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 9753-9759

  Price, Andrew D ^a   Schwartz, Daniel K ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; HYDROPHOBICITY GRADIENTS; NEMATIC TO ISOTROPIC TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; PLANAR ANCHORING;

BIREFRINGENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; SILANES; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WETTING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 35648935892     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la061885g     Document Type: Article

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