Liquid Crystals Confined in Micro and Nanochannels
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Abstract
Geometrical confinements cause frustration, topological defects in liquid crystal molecular orientations, altering behaviors of phases and phase transitions. In this paper, we developed microfabrication processes for assembling cells of glass slides with various well-defined confinement geometries such as microfluidic channels and nanofluidic channels, and will present experimental studies on the structures and phase transitions of nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals under these confinements.
*Project supported by ACS PRF \# 53018-ND7
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Authors
Yu-Bing Guo
Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
Kent State Univ - Kent
Jie Xiang
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
Oleg Lavrentovich
Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
Kent State Univ - Kent, Ohio
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242, USA
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University
Qi-Huo Wei
Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
