MICROCONFINED LIQUID-CRYSTALS - SURFACE-INDUCED DEFORMATIONS, ORDERING AND FLUCTUATIONS

Authors
ZUMER S BORSTNIK A SKACEJ G ZIHERL P CRAWFORD GP
Citation
S. Zumer et al., MICROCONFINED LIQUID-CRYSTALS - SURFACE-INDUCED DEFORMATIONS, ORDERING AND FLUCTUATIONS, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 304, 1997, pp. 477-494
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Crystallography
Journal title
Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals → ACNP
ISSN journal
1058725X
Volume
304
Year of publication
1997
Pages
477 - 494
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-725X(1997)304:<477:ML-SDO>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Some recent results of the studies of subsurface deformations, splay-b end elasticity and surface-induced order in confined liquid crystals a re presented. The subsurface deformations are studied using molecular description of the ordering, and Landaude Gennes approach is used to i nterpret a DNMR study of wetting transitions in microconfined 5CB and for the analysis of fluctuations and forces in partially ordered nemat ic systems.