Thin films of a main-chain columnar liquid crystal: Studies of structure, phase transitions, and alignment

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3500-3509

  Defaux, Matthieu ^a   Vidal, Loïc ^a   Möller, Martin ^b   Gearba, Raluca I ^c   Dimasi, Elaine ^c   Ivanov, Dimitri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR SYMMETRY; COLUMNAR LIQUID CRYSTALS; GRAZING INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; MESOPHASE; MESOPHASE FORMATION; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; RECIPROCAL SPACE;

ALIGNMENT; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; EPITAXIAL FILMS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; INORGANIC POLYMERS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMER FILMS; SILICONES;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 66249116312     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma802666a     Document Type: Article

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