Alignment of liquid crystals using Langmuir‒Blodgett films of unsymmetrical bent-core liquid crystals

K Choudhary, RK Gupta, R Pratibha… - … Crystals, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… The LB film of BN1 and BN2 molecules was used as alignment layer for the alignment of
nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in LC cell. LC cells of ~8 µm thicknesses were fabricated by using …

Surface characterization of nanocomposite Langmuir films based on liquid crystals and cellulose nanocrystals

N Bielejewska, R Hertmanowski - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
liquid crystals 5CB and 5FCB create Langmuir films of similar surface pressure. The 5PCH
liquid crystal also makes Langmuir … which means higher stability of the layer. Fig. 1 shows the …

Macroscopic Biaxial Order in Multilayer Films of Bent-Core Liquid Crystals Deposited by Combined Langmuir–Blodgett/Langmuir–Schaefer Technique

F Vita, FC Adamo, M Campana, B Bordokas, F Ciuchi… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
… to the corresponding values in the top layer of the Langmuir films, indicating that the tilted …
Apparently, after the first LB deposition, the more diffuse bottom layer of the Langmuir film …

Study of Langmuir-Blodgett films of chiral nematic liquid crystals prepared by a templating method

X Niu, W Liu, S Sun - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2017 - Elsevier
… A 5-layer Y-type LB film of chiral nematic liquid crystal/SA was deposited on the silicon
wafers at 40 mN/m. As shown in Fig. 5, the X-ray diffraction patterns appear to be five ordered …

Preparation and characterisation of monolayers and Langmuir–Blodgett films of liquid crystal mixed with cubic silsesquioxanes

K Dopierała, M Rojewska, M Skrzypiec… - … Crystals, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
… alignment layer [Citation17]. The POSS aggregated and/or agglomerated in the alignment
layer … Therefore, strong attachment of POSS into the LC layers is a very important issue for the …

2D Photopolymerization of Liquid Crystalline Langmuir Monolayers: In Situ Observation by Reflected Polarizing Microscopy

T Ishigami, Y Inake, Y Tabe, Y Nonaka, K Endo… - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photopolymerization of Langmuir monolayers composed of bifunctional acrylic liquid crystalline
(LC) compounds was observed in situ by polarizing optical microscopy. In a dark state, …

The formation of quantum dots-liquid crystal monolayers by Langmuir-Blodgett method

A Chumakov, AJ Al-Alwani, I Gorbachev… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… the ordered layers of nanoobjects, is a Langmuir-Blodgett … Langmuir monolayered films
consisting of CdSe/CdS/ZnS QDs and 4′-octyl-4-biphenylcarbonitrile (8CB) liquid crystal (LC). …

Thin films of discotic liquid crystals and their applications

RK Gupta, V Manjuladevi, C Karthik, K Choudhary - Liquid Crystals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… the Langmuir monolayer of the DLC molecules at the air–water interface. The Langmuir
of a device layer-by-layer by employing a highly controlled Langmuir–Blodgett technique. …

Active colloids in liquid crystals

OD Lavrentovich - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2016 - Elsevier
… The liquid crystal (LC) medium is of a thermotropic type in … (ii) is living liquid crystals,
representing swimming bacteria … orientational order of living liquid crystals experiences two-stage …

Using Liquid Crystals for In Situ Optical Mapping of Interfacial Mobility and Surfactant Concentrations at Flowing Aqueous–Oil Interfaces

S Roh, M Tsuei, NL Abbott - Langmuir, 2021 - ACS Publications
liquids or tracer particle displacement at sheared interfaces. (1,14,21) In the study reported
herein, we explore the use of liquid crystalline … The liquid crystals (LCs) used in our study are …