Langmuir Blodgett films of arachidic acid and a nematic liquid crystal: Characterization and use in homeotropic alignment

J Collins, D Funfschilling, M Dennin - Thin Solid Films, 2006 - Elsevier
… The liquid crystal molecules that are trapped inside the LB film are oriented in the same …
liquid crystal in the cell. Because a LB film is a layer by layer transfer of material from a Langmuir

Reorientation of liquid-crystal (LC) molecules in mixed surfactant/LC Langmuir films

M Barmentlo, QHF Vrehen - Chemical physics letters, 1993 - Elsevier
… tail upon increasing the surface density via compression of a Langmuir film [ 7,8]. Contrast, …
molecules within the mixed 8CB/PDA Langmuir layers upon compression. At the observed …

Alignment and alignment dynamics of nematic liquid crystals on Langmuir-Blodgett mono-layers

VSU Fazio, L Komitov, ST Lagerwall - Liquid crystals, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
… of stearic and behenic acids, deposited with the Langmuir±Blodgett technique, were used
as aligning ®lms in nematic liquid crystal cells. During the ®lling process the liquid crystal

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 …

Anchoring structure of liquid-crystal monolayers on polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett films observed by scanning tunneling microscopy

JY Fang, ZH Lu, GW Ming, ZM Ai, Y Wei, P Stroeve - Physical Review A, 1992 - APS
… the alignment properties of smectic liquid crystal (8CB) on ultrathin polyimide Langmuir-Blodgett …
alignment in liquid-crystal layers. In orderto understand the inhuence of the surface …

Behaviour of an ultrathin ferroelectric liquid crystal Langmuir–Blodgett film at an air–water and air–solid interface

R Kaur, GK Bhullar, KK Raina - Liquid Crystals, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
… the smectic layer ordering in the layers to a … layer ordering of liquid crystal molecules with
a layer spacing of 27.52 Å [Citation18]. As the number of layers increased from 11 to 22 layers, …

Liquid crystal codendrimers with a statistical distribution of phenolic and mesogenic groups: behavior as Langmuir and Langmuir− Blodgett films

I Leshchiner, E Agina, N Boiko, RM Richardson… - Langmuir, 2008 - ACS Publications
… The first series of carbosilane liquid crystal codendrimers with … It was found that the
codendrimers tend to form stable Langmuir … groups formed ordered layers parallel to the substrate. …

Molecular aggregation in Langmuir–Blodgett films of azo dye/liquid crystal mixtures

K Inglot, A Kaleta, T Martyński, D Bauman - Dyes and Pigments, 2008 - Elsevier
… The substrates were dipped and raised through the floating layer … Repeated attempts to
transfer a floating layer onto quartz … the floating layer, was estimated to be between 1.0 and 1.2. …

Modeling the interface region of command surface 1. Structural evaluations of azobenzene/liquid crystal hybrid langmuir monolayers

T Ubukata, T Seki, K Ichimura - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2000 - ACS Publications
… (ii) namely, the structural features of hybrid layers of the Az component and LC molecule on
the water surface. Structural justification of the Langmuir monolayer at the air−water interface …

Creation and structural comparison of ultrathin film assemblies: transferred freely suspended films and Langmuir-Blodgett films of liquid crystals

G Decher, J Maclennan, U Sohling, J Reibel - Thin Solid Films, 1992 - Elsevier
layer numbers of two to several hundred and with a size up to approximately 8 cm 2. They
possess a well-defined layer structure in which the smectic layers … similar to LangmuirBlodgett …