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Chain Length Dependence of Confined Liquid Crystals Configuration  

Finotello, Daniele (Department of Physics. Kent State University)
Jin, Tao (Department of Physics. Kent State University)
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Journal of Information Display / v.4, no.1, 2003 , pp. 14-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study of confined liquid crystals flourished in the decade of the nineties. Liquid crystals properties have been probed after confinement in well-defined or interconnected geometries as those available in porous media and in polymer networks. In this work we emphasized the power of the nuclear magnetic resonance technique to determine the confined liquid crystal structures. We also present unexpected results on the dependence of the confined liquid crystal configuration on the chain length.
Keywords
liquid crystals; orientational order; director configuration;
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