Solid Surface Shape and the Alignment of an Adjacent Nematic Liquid Crystal
- 26 June 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (26), 1683-1686
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1683
Abstract
We show that elastic strain energy may account for the tendency of some nematic liquid crystals to lie parallel to the direction of rubbing on a solid surface that has been slightly deformed by rubbing, or perpendicular to a surface that is slightly rough in two dimensions.Keywords
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