Reverse switching of surface roughness in a self-organized polydomain liquid crystal coating

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3880-3885

  Liu, Danqing ^a   Liu, Ling ^b   Onck, Patrick R ^b   Broer, Dirk J ^a   Palffy Muhoray, Peter ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Light activation; Polydomain liquid crystal polymer; Self organization; Surface dynamics; Switchable jagged surfaces

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID; AZOBENZENE; MONOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; ISOMERIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIAL COATING; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84926395202     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419312112     Document Type: Article

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