Electrically surface-driven switchable wettability of liquid crystal/polymer composite film

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Chiu, Ya Ping ^a   Shen, Cheng Yu ^a   Wang, Wen Ching ^a   Chu, Ting Yu ^b   Lin, Yi Hsin ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; CONTROL APPLICATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTRO-OPTICAL; EXTERNAL VOLTAGES; LIQUID CRYSTAL MOLECULES; NANOTECHNOLOGY DEVICES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; SURFACE WETTABILITY; SWITCHABLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 77950503469     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3378688     Document Type: Article

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