Issue 4, 2008
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Soft Matter

Alignment and anchoring transition of liquid crystals on the surface of self-assembled block copolymer films with periodic defects†

Ji-Woong Park,*a   Jinchul Choa  and  Edwin L. Thomasb  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Oryong-dong 1, Buk-gu, Gwangju, Korea
E-mail: jiwoong@gist.ac.kr

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
E-mail: elt@mit.edu

Abstract

Patterned alignment of the nematic and uniform homeotropic alignment of the smectic LC occur on the periodic bend-splay Neél wall defect pattern of a rod–coil copolymer substrate surface.

Graphical abstract: Alignment and anchoring transition of liquid crystals on the surface of self-assembled block copolymer films with periodic defects

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B718482D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
30 Nov 2007
Accepted
28 Jan 2008
First published
15 Feb 2008

Soft Matter, 2008,4, 739-743

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Alignment and anchoring transition of liquid crystals on the surface of self-assembled block copolymer films with periodic defects

J. Park, J. Cho and E. L. Thomas, Soft Matter, 2008, 4, 739 DOI: 10.1039/B718482D

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