Optical textures and orientational structures of nematic and cholesteric droplets with heterogeneous boundary conditions

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2008

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1080/15421400802219817

Ключевые слова: director configuration, interfaces, nematic and cholesteric droplets, surfactant, Boundary value problems, Drop formation, Drops, Fluid mechanics, Phospholipids, Surface active agents, Boundary conditioning, Homeotropic, Nematic droplets, Nematics, Optical textures, Orientational structures, Surface anchoring, Boundary conditions

Аннотация: Brief review of the orientational structures within the droplets of chiral as well as achiral nematics with the heterogeneous boundary conditions is reported. The modification of boundary conditions in the 5CB/polyvinylbutyral and LN-396/cholesterylacetate/polyvinylbutyral compositions with the planar anchoring at the interface is Показать полностьюcreated by addition of the homeotropic surfactant (lecithin). Sequences of the novel stable and non-stable orientational structures being realized within the droplets of achiral nematic are presented. For the LN-396 nematic droplets doped by cholesterylacetate the formation of a spherulite structure has been shown when the tangential surface anchoring is modified to the homeotropic one.

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Издание

Журнал: MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 489

Номера страниц: 84-93

ISSN журнала: 15421406

Место издания: ABINGDON

Издатель: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Персоны

  • Prishchepa O.O. (Siberian Fed Univ Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Sci Ctr, SB RAS, LV Kirensky Phys Inst, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia)
  • Zyryanov V.Ya. (Siberian Fed Univ Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Sci Ctr, SB RAS, LV Kirensky Phys Inst, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia)
  • Gardymova A.P. (Siberian Fed Univ Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Sci Ctr, SB RAS, LV Kirensky Phys Inst, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia)
  • Shabanov V.F. (Siberian Fed Univ Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Sci Ctr, SB RAS, LV Kirensky Phys Inst, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia)