Atomic force microscopy study of surface topography of films of cholesteric oligomer- and polymer-based mixtures with photovariable helix pitch

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bobrovsky, Alexey ^a   Sinitsyna, Olga ^a   Abramchuk, Sergei ^a   Yaminsky, Igor ^a   Shibaev, Valery ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL MOIETY; CHOLESTERIC SYSTEMS; CYCLOSILOXANES; DOUBLE BONDS; GLASS FORMING POLYMERS; HELICAL TWISTING POWER; HELIX PITCH; ISOSORBIDE; ORIENTED FILMS; PHOTO-TUNABLE; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE; UV IRRADIATION;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); MIXTURES; OLIGOMERS; PHOTOCHROMISM; POLYMERS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYMER FILMS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84873048939     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.012503     Document Type: Article

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