The driving force for homeotropic alignment of a triphenylene derivative in a hexagonal columnar mesophase on single substrates

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 518, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1973-1979

  Wang, Junjie ^a   He, Zhiqun ^a   Zhang, Yingning ^a   Zhao, Huan ^a   Zhang, Chunxiu ^a   Kong, Xiangfei ^a   Mu, Linping ^a   Liang, Chunjun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Alignment; Discotic; Homeotropic; Liquid crystal; Phase transitions; Triphenylene derivative

Indexed keywords

COLUMNAR MESOPHASES; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; D-SPACING; DISCOTICS; DRIVING FORCES; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; HOMEOTROPIC; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; KEY FACTORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASE; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SINGLE DOMAINS; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; TRIPHENYLENE DERIVATIVES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS;

ALIGNMENT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 73949135719     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2009.07.057     Document Type: Article

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23. 8 [M ± H] 689.40480, found 689.40145, error 4.9 ppm, obtained by Bruker Apex IV FTMS/ESI Positive; Elemental Analysis of TPT-BAE: calcd C 73.22%, H 8.19%, found 73.89%, 8.50% measured with Elementar Vario MICRO CUBE.