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Ionic Liquid Crystals as Chromogenic Materials. [PDF]

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Santos AFM   +4 more
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Liquids, Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Physics Today, 1989
In thinking about the states of condensed matter, we usually consider two extremes. At one extreme are crystalline solids, in which atoms form a perfectly periodic array that extends to infinity in three directions. At the other extreme are fluids or glasses, in which the atoms or molecules are completely disordered and the system is both ...
Joel D. Brock   +3 more
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Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals by Liquid Crystals

Physical Review Letters, 2000
We observed light-induced alignment of the nematic liquid crystal, 4, 4(')-n-pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB), on a fused quartz. Irradiation of the adsorbed layer with polarized ultraviolet light produced homogeneous alignment in a 5CB-filled liquid crystal cell with the easy orientation axis perpendicular to the polarization direction.
, Reznikov   +7 more
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Liquid Crystals Align Liquid Crystals

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2002
We have investigated the molecular orientation of a liquid crystal (LC), pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB), evaporated on a rubbed polymer by means of polarized ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy and surface second-harmonic generation. The results unambiguously reveal that the in-plane anisotropy is diminishingly small before the molecules form a monolayer ...
T. Shioda   +6 more
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Liquid crystal pump

Lab Chip, 2013
We report a dielectrically actuated liquid crystal (LC) pump. A small volume of LC forms a pillar-like droplet in a cylindrical hole which partially touches the bottom substrate with embedded interdigitated electrodes. By applying a voltage, the LC droplet can be largely stretched along the electrode direction by the generated dielectric force, which ...
Ren, Hongwen, Xu, Su, Wu, Shin Tson
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Mineral liquid crystals

Colloid Journal, 2017
The contemporary state of studying mineral liquid crystals has been analyzed. Such crystals are lyotropic aqueous or water–organic colloidal solutions, the dispersed phases of which are represented by nano- and microsized crystalline particles. The methods of production, structure, and physicochemical properties of these systems, as well as the ...
A S Sonin   +3 more
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Pumping Liquid Crystals

Physical Review Letters, 1995
We observe mass pumping of a ferroelectric smectic-C liquid crystal induced by an applied ac voltage. The flow is unidirectional, reflecting the chirality of the system. An elastohydrodynamic model of the smectic-C phase is used to explain the observations.
, Zou, , Clark
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