Nematic director reorientation at solid and liquid interfaces under flow: Saxs studies in a microfluidic device

Langmuir

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4361-4371

  Silva, Bruno F B ^a,c   Zepeda Rosales, Miguel ^b   Venkateswaran, Neeraja ^a   Fletcher, Bretton J ^a   Carter, Lester G ^e   Matsui, Tsutomu ^d   Weiss, Thomas M ^d   Han, Jun ^e   Li, Youli ^b   Olsson, Ulf ^b   Safinya, Cyrus R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FLOW RATE; FLUIDIC DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROFLUIDICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE INTERFACES; X RAY SCATTERING;

BOUNDARY LUBRICATIONS; DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT MEASUREMENTS; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC FOCUSING; SOLID AND LIQUID INTERFACE; SYNCHROTRON SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERINGS; THERMOTROPIC NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUIDS;

CHEMISTRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAB ON A CHIP; LIQUID CRYSTAL; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

HYDRODYNAMICS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84927779532     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5034614     Document Type: Article

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