scholarly journals Surface anchoring mediates bifurcation in nematic microflows within cylindrical capillaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 072005
Author(s):  
Paul Steffen ◽  
Eric Stellamanns ◽  
Anupam Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Surface Anchoring

Temperature influence on homogeneous instabilities in stationary shear flow of nematic liquid crystal with weak surface anchoring

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
I.Sh. Nasibullayev ◽  
O.V. Urina
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Shear Flow ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
External Fields ◽  
Temperature Influence ◽  
Surface Anchoring ◽  
Weak Surface ◽  
Surface Coupling

Plane stationary shear flow of the nematic liquid crystal with weak surface anchoring is investigated. The effect of temperature, external fields, and the nature of the surface coupling on the formation of orientation instabilities is investigated.

Temperature influence on orientation dynamics of oscillatory Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystal

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 172-181
Author(s):  
I.Sh. Nasibullayev ◽  
U.R. Kamaletdinova
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Poiseuille Flow ◽  
External Influence ◽  
Temperature Influence ◽  
Surface Anchoring ◽  
Orientation Behaviour ◽  
Orientation Change ◽  
Low Amplitude ◽  
Flow Plane

In this work is studying temperature influence and surface anchoring in orientation behaviour of oscillatory Poiseuille flow of nematic liquid crystal (NLC) in the plane cell. Without external influence molecules lays along flow plane. Molecules orientation change and caused by this back-flow is studied by low-amplitude decomposition.

scholarly journals Azimuthal Anchoring Strength in Photopatterned Alignment of a Nematic

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 675
Author(s):  
H. Nilanthi Padmini ◽  
Mojtaba Rajabi ◽  
Sergij V. Shiyanovskii ◽  
Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Point Defects ◽  
Elastic Energy ◽  
Separation Distance ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
Uv Exposure ◽  
Surface Anchoring ◽  
Anchoring Strength ◽  
Spatially Varying

Spatially-varying director fields have become an important part of research and development in liquid crystals. Characterization of the anchoring strength associated with a spatially-varying director is difficult, since the methods developed for a uniform alignment are seldom applicable. Here we characterize the strength of azimuthal surface anchoring produced by the photoalignment technique based on plasmonic metamsaks. The measurements used photopatterned arrays of topological point defects of strength +1 and −1 in thin layers of a nematic liquid crystal. The integer-strength defects split into pairs of half-integer defects with lower elastic energy. The separation distance between the split pair is limited by the azimuthal surface anchoring, which allows one to determine the strength of the latter. The strength of the azimuthal anchoring is proportional to the UV exposure time during the photoalignment of the azobenzene layer.

Crystalline ruthenium polypyridyl nanoparticles: a targeted treatment of bacterial infection with multifunctional antibacterial, adhesion and surface-anchoring photosensitizer properties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyang Yin ◽  
Zekun Wang ◽  
Xiaoyuan Ding ◽  
Xiaoqing Chen ◽  
Jingyuan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Infection ◽  
Antibacterial Therapy ◽  
Bacterial Infections ◽  
Targeted Treatment ◽  
Ruthenium Polypyridyl ◽  
Surface Anchoring ◽  
Antibacterial Materials

Photodynamic antibacterial therapy employs nanocomposites as an alternative to traditional antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial infections. However, many of these antibacterial materials are less effective towards bacteria than traditional...

Suppressed Crystallization of Rod-Disc Molecule by Surface Anchoring Confinement

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1309-1315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dae-Yoon Kim ◽  
Prasenjit Nayek ◽  
Soeun Kim ◽  
Kyung Su Ha ◽  
Mi Hyeon Jo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Anchoring

scholarly journals Anchoring Energy for Nematic Liquid Crystals an Analysis of the Proposed Forms

1984 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 1066-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Barbero ◽  
N. V. Madhusudana ◽  
G. Durand
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Infinite Series ◽  
Tilt Angle ◽  
Legendre Polynomials ◽  
Fourier Expansion ◽  
Easy Axis ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Surface Anchoring ◽  
Functional Forms ◽  
Anchoring Energy

We analyze the proposed functional forms describing the surface anchoring energy of MBBA nematic liquid crystal. Measurements of the surface torque versus tilt angle suggest that the simple cosinus-square form is not adequate for MBBA. The generalized form in an infinite series in cosinus-square is not useful since the set of functions is not orthogonal. Analyses using the orthogonal Legendre polynomials and Fourier expansion are given. Finally we analyse the data in terms of small tilt angles compared to the easy axis, and very far from it, which are the two limits of practical interest.

Effect of defects and surface anchoring on the phase behavior of chiral smectic liquid crystals

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Riahi ◽  
F. Trabelsi ◽  
H. Dhaouadi ◽  
R. Zgueb ◽  
T. Othman
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Phase Behavior ◽  
Smectic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Surface Anchoring
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