Fullerenes surface gratings for liquid crystal alignment

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 528-530

  Talarico, Mara ^a,b   Carbone, Giovanni ^a,c   Barberi, Riccardo ^a,c   Golemme, Attilio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b LASCAMM Laboratory   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTROPIC SOLUTIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; MESOPHASE ORIENTATION; SURFACE GRATINGS;

ALIGNMENT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

FULLERENES;

EID: 4043154779     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1774249     Document Type: Article

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