Anchoring and orientational wetting of nematic liquid crystals on semi-fluorinated self-assembled monolayer surfaces

B. Alkhairalla; N. Boden; E. Cheadle; S.D. Evans; J.R. Henderson; H. Fukushima; S. Miyashita; Holger Schönherr; Gyula J. Vancso; R. Colorado jr; M. Graupe; O.E. Shmakova; T.R. Lee

doi:10.1209/epl/i2002-00210-x

Anchoring and orientational wetting of nematic liquid crystals on semi-fluorinated self-assembled monolayer surfaces

B. Alkhairalla, N. Boden, E. Cheadle, S.D. Evans, J.R. Henderson, H. Fukushima, S. Miyashita, Holger Schönherr, Gyula J. Vancso, R. Colorado jr, M. Graupe, O.E. Shmakova, T.R. Lee

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Abstract

We demonstrate that it is possible to achieve exceptionally fine control over the anchoring of liquid crystals via the use of semi-fluorinated self-assembled monolayers of varying spacer length. We use this approach to map the detailed shape of an anchoring transition surface in thermodynamic phase space and to explore the links between anchoring and orientational wetting phenomena. These results allow one to design a substrate that will place a standard liquid-crystal film arbitrarily close to an anchoring transition between homeotropic and planar anchoring.

Original language	Undefined
Pages (from-to)	410-416
Journal	Europhysics letters
Volume	59
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00210-x
Publication status	Published - 2002

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Alkhairalla, B., Boden, N., Cheadle, E., Evans, S. D., Henderson, J. R., Fukushima, H., Miyashita, S., Schönherr, H., Vancso, G. J., Colorado jr, R., Graupe, M., Shmakova, O. E., & Lee, T. R. (2002). Anchoring and orientational wetting of nematic liquid crystals on semi-fluorinated self-assembled monolayer surfaces. Europhysics letters, 59(3), 410-416. https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00210-x

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