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Dynamic Self-Assemb...
Dynamic Self-Assembly of the Liquid Crystalline Smectic-A Phase
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- Hegde, Gurumurthy, 1979 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för fysik (GU),Department of Physics (GU)
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Nair, Geetha (author)
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S, Krishna Prasad (author)
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- 2005
- 2005
- English.
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In: Advanced Materials. - 1521-4095. ; 17
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Abstract
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- A photoinduced transition in an azobenzene-containing liquid crystal leads to a phase that does not exist in the thermal cycle. The smectic A phase is induced and stabilized only in the presence of UV light, producing fan-shaped focal conic textures typical of the SmA phase, as observed by polarized-light microscopy (see Figure). This dynamic self-assembly is explained by photoinduced nanophase segregation and a frustrated spin-gas model.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Self assembly
- SmA
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- art (subject category)
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