Controlling liquid crystal alignment using photocleavable cyanobiphenyl self-assembled monolayers

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3686-3692

  Prompinit, Panida ^a   Achalkumar, Ammathnadu S ^a   Bramble, Jonathan P ^a   Bushby, Richard J ^a   Wälti, Christoph ^a   Evans, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

focal conic domains (FCDs); liquid crystal; ortho nitrobenzyl; patterned surface; self assembled monolayers

Indexed keywords

CALAMITIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; CONTROLLED ALIGNMENT; CYANOBIPHENYLS; FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; INFRARED REFLECTION ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; ORTHO-NITROBENZYL; PATTERNED SURFACE; PLANAR ALIGNMENT; SAMS; SIZE CONFINEMENT; SMECTIC-A; THIOLATES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ALIGNMENT; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CRYSTALS; FOCUSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOLYSIS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS;

BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79151481870     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am100832p     Document Type: Article

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