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Surface Anchoring of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Incorporating Nonlinear Optics, 1988 Abstract Existing experimental techniques for measuring the orientational anchoring strength at a substrate-nematic interface are critically analyzed with a particular emphasis on their macroscopic basis and on the range of applicability and precision.
Gleeson, James Theodore
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A Tool to Control the Nematic Surface Alignment: Anchoring Competition
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2001The problem to obtain a suitable surface texture for a nematic liquid crystal is dealt by means of the fine control of the anchoring properties of independent surface aligning attractors. This approch allows to obtain monostable oblique and planar surface directors and even bistable anchoring conditions.
IOVANE M. +4 more
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A combinatorial approach to surface anchored polymers
Journal of Materials Science, 2003Recent advances in the field of self-assembly have led to the development of a plethora of new technologies derived from soft lithography that enable alternative ways of fabricating thin films with two- and three-dimensional patterns on material surfaces.
T. Wu +3 more
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Anchoring properties of substrate with a grating surface
Chinese Physics, 2007The anchoring properties of substrate with a grating surface are investigated analytically. The alignment of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in a grating surface originates from two mechanisms, thus the anchoring energy consists of two parts. One originates from the interaction potential between NLC molecules and the molecules on the substrate surface ...
Ye Wen-Jiang +2 more
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Geometrical anchoring at an inclined surface of a liquid crystal
Physical Review A, 1992The free energy of a nematic film, placed between two isotropic media, does not depend on the azimuthal angle if the two interfaces are parallel. It is shown that in the general case of nonparallel bounding, a particular value of the azimuthal orientation is energetically preferable.
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A molecular trio anchors RNAs on the cell surface
Molecular CellRNAs are now recognized as functional components of the cell surface, expanding the molecular repertoire of the plasma membrane. In this issue of Molecular Cell, Li et al. reveal a mechanism for RNA anchorage via heparan sulfate and show that these surface RNAs can modulate receptor-ligand interactions.
Yu-Hang, Pan, Ling-Ling, Chen
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Schistosome surface protein anchors
Parasitology Today, 1990S.Y. Sauma, M. Strand
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Oblique anchoring at a free nematic surface
Physical Review E, 1996, Braun, , Sluckin, , Velasco, , Mederos
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Optimization of Surface Loading of the Silatrane Anchoring Group on TiO2
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022Jennifer L Troiano +2 more
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Wetting and anchoring of a nematic on a rough surface
1996Ellipsometric measurements of a nematic drop spreading on a rough surface are reported. The thickness profile of the drop shows two typical lengths belonging to the microscopic and to the mesoscopic scales (a few tens and some hundreds of Angstrom, respectively). No intermediate thicknesses are observed during the spreading.
VALIGNAT M. P. +6 more
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