Asymmetric organic-inorganic hybrid giant molecule: Cyanobiphenyl monosubstituted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane nanoparticles for vertical alignment of liquid crystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6300-6306

  Kim, Dae Yoon ^a   Kim, Soeun ^a   Lee, Sang A ^a   Choi, Young Eun ^a   Yoon, Won Jin ^a   Kuo, Shiao Wei ^b   Hsu, Chih Hao ^c   Huang, Mingjun ^c   Lee, Seung Hee ^a   Jeong, Kwang Un ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; OLIGOMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; MACROSCOPIC PARTICLES; MANUFACTURING COST; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT; VERTICAL ALIGNMENT;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84897432876     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4126396     Document Type: Article

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