- Adsorption of fluorinated liquid crystal dopants measured using neutron reflectivity. LLE Mears, G Magro, SW Prescott, RM Richardson, MWA Skoda, WM de Vos and E Watkins. International Liquid Crystal Conference, Mainz, August 2012.
Abstract:
Mixtures of liquid crystals (LCs) are widely used in technological applications in order to tailor the overall
properties to the environmental and operational requirements. Surface active dopants can have useful
properties, for example, Bryan-Brown et al. have noticed the adsorbed layer causes a weakening of
the director anchoring of the bulk nematic, which in turn allows for faster switching of orientation in an
electric field. Fluorinated LCs are attracting an increasing amount of interest owing to the wide variety
of properties functioanlisation with fluorine can affect. Strong adsorption was seen in the system of a
fluorinated dopant LC in 4'-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) at the interface with air, whereas no adsorption
was evident at a solid surfactant (CTAB) treated surface.
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