Surfactant driven surface anchoring transitions in liquid crystal thin films

Soft Matter

Volumn 6, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5482-5490

  Uline, Mark J ^a   Meng, Shihong ^a   Szleifer, Igal ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MOLECULE; BUILDING BLOCKES; COARSE-GRAINED; EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; ENERGY FUNCTIONALS; HOMEOTROPIC; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES; MESOSCOPICS; MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INFORMATION; MOLECULAR PICTURES; NEMATOGENS; NON-MONOTONIC FUNCTION; ONSAGER; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; SURFACE COVERAGES; SURFACE-ANCHORING; SURFACTANT LAYERS; SURFACTANT MOLECULES; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

CHEMICAL BONDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULES; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 77958104897     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00542h     Document Type: Article

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