Surface-Controlled Orientational Transitions in Elastically Strained Films of Liquid Crystal That Are Triggered by Vapors of Toluene

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 13114-13122

  Bedolla Pantoja, Marco A ^a   Abbott, Nicholas L ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

elastic strain; liquid crystals; orientational transitions; sensors; vapors; volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

FILM PREPARATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SENSORS; SUBSTRATES; TOLUENE; VAPORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; BULK PHASE TRANSITION; ELASTIC STRAIN; FACILE PREPARATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS (LCS); ORIENTATIONAL TRANSITIONS; SUPPORTED ON SILICA; THERMODYNAMIC MODEL;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84973582491     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02139     Document Type: Article

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