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Liquid Crystalline Polymers In Nematic Solvents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2011

D.R.M. Williams  and
A. Halperin
D.R.M. Williams
Affiliation:
Collège de France, 75231 Paris Cedex 05.
A. Halperin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, C.E.N.- Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
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Abstract

We present a theoretical study of liquid crystalline polymers in nematic solvents. We focus on the following topics: (i) Rod-like chains confined between plates, (ii) Flexible chains in a slit (iii) Nematic brushes and double-brushes (iv) Anchoring transitions. Confined and grafted chains in nematic solvents can exhibit a variety of interesting effects, including quasi-piezoelectricity and a lowering of the critical voltage for the Fréedericksz transition.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 328: Symposium Q – Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Organic Solid State Materials , 1993 , 723
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1994

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