A coumarin-containing compound can be sprayed onto a curved substrate surface and solidifies rapidly due to intermolecular hydrogen bonding and can induce alignment of liquid crystals after exposure to linearly polarized UV light.
Normal and oblique irradiation of a photosensitive polyvinyl cinnamate substrate by a linearly polarized ultraviolet light produces either apolar or polar planar alignment of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal.
Control of nucleation positions in the cholesteric-blue phase I transition by surface alignment patterning and anisotropic growth of blue phase I crystals.
This report describes a liquid crystalline material that can be cured and patterned with green light and photoaligned with blue light.
Accurate reproduction of azopolymer surface restructuring in 2D polarization fields is achieved through viscoplastic photoalignment modeling, provided that the self-induced rotation of elliptically polarized interference patterns is accounted for.