Alignment and anchoring transition of liquid crystals on the surface of self-assembled block copolymer films with periodic defects. uri icon

abstract

  • Patterned alignment of the nematic and uniform homeotropic alignment of the smectic LC occur on the periodic bend-splay Nel wall defect pattern of a rod-coil copolymer substrate surface.

published proceedings

  • Soft Matter

author list (cited authors)

  • Park, J., Cho, J., & Thomas, E. L.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Park, Ji-Woong||Cho, Jinchul||Thomas, Edwin L

publication date

  • March 2008