Dramatic Effect of Single-Atom Replacement on the Surface Tension of Liquid-Crystal Compounds
- 26 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (4) , 732-735
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.732
Abstract
High-resolution surface tension measurements have been conducted on free-standing films of a specially selected series of liquid-crystal compounds. We have discovered a dramatic change in the surface tension of liquid-crystal compounds by replacing a single fluorine atom in the molecular tail with a hydrogen atom. The implication of this finding will be discussed.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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