Photo-reversible liquid crystal alignment using azobenzene-based self-assembled monolayers: Comparison of the bare monolayer and liquid crystal reorientation dynamics

Langmuir

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 17482-17488

  Fang, Guanjiu ^a   Shi, Yue ^a   Maclennan, Joseph E ^a   Clark, Noel A ^a   Farrow, Matthew J ^a   Walba, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC LIGHT; ACTIVE SURFACES; AZIMUTHAL ANCHORING STRENGTH; AZIMUTHAL ORIENTATION; COVALENTLY BONDED; CRYSTAL REORIENTATION; DIRECTOR FIELDS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; GLASS SURFACES; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; IN-PLANE; ISOTROPIC STATE; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; PHOTOSENSITIVE SURFACES; PLANAR ALIGNMENT; POLARIZED LIGHT; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; SURFACE NORMALS; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRIETHOXYSILANE;

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; AZO DYES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 78650339862     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la102788j     Document Type: Article

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