Anisotropic Excluded Volume Effect and Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystal in a Sandwich Cell
- 1 June 1983
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 22 (6A) , L343
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.22.l343
Abstract
It is shown that the orientation dependent excluded volume interaction between elongated nematic molecules and the cell walls always favors the planar alignment of nematic liquid crystals. For thermotropic liquid crystals the anchoring energy of this effect amounts to several erg/cm2.Keywords
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