Substrate-induced crystal plastic phase of a discotic liquid crystal

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 658-662

  Gbabode, Gabin ^a   Dumont, Nicolas ^a   Quist, Florence ^a   Schweicher, Guillaume ^a   Moser, Armin ^b   Viville, Pascal ^c   Lazzaroni, Roberto ^c   Geerts, Yves H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

crystal plastic phase; discotic liquid crystals; grazing incidence X ray diffraction; thin films

Indexed keywords

BULK PHASE; DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; GRAZING INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; PLASTIC PHASE; RIGID SUBSTRATES; TETRAGONAL SYMMETRIES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

PLASTIC;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHASE TRANSITION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PHASE TRANSITION; PLASTICS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84856316267     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103739     Document Type: Article

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