The immense potential of light responsive polymer materials toward technological
applications in photonics, mechanics and micro-fabrication has been attracting increasing …

The photoalignment of liquid crystalline materials has been studied extensively over the past
two and a half decades and has recently become of technological importance in the liquid …

The orientation of liquid crystal molecules is very sensitive towards contacting surfaces, and
this phenomenon is critical during the fabrication of liquid crystal display panels, as well as …

An orientational change from homeotropic to planar of liquid crystal (LC) mesogens and the
microphase separation (MPS) domains is attained by the segregated skin layer at the free …

Rodlike liquid-crystalline (LC) mesogens preferentially adopt a homeotropic orientation by
excluded volume effects at the free surface in side-chain LC (SCLC) polymer films. The …

For efficient photoresponses of liquid‐crystal (LC) azobenzene (Az) polymer systems, planar
LC orientation of the Az mesogenic group is required because the light irradiation process …

The influence of a low ac electric field on phase transitions is discussed in the case of a
nematic liquid crystal 4-n-octyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl (8CB) doped with Sn 2 P 2 S 6 …

The orientation behavior of mesogens in a polyacrylate with cyanobiphenyl (CB) side chain
in thin films was investigated in detail by UV–vis absorption spectroscopy and grazing …

The mesogen orientations of liquid crystals are sensitive to the nature of the contacting
surface. For side chain liquid crystalline polymer (SCLCP) films, most investigations have …

Biomolecules have the potential to be used for sensitive physico-chemical detection due to
their high selectivity and unique properties. Because of such practical application, we have …