Fluorination Effects at Liquid Crystal Surfaces

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The adsorption of a liquid crystal dopant to a surface can have a significant impact on its properties such as electro-optic response and lubrication. Both the interesting properties of fluorinated liquid crystal molecules themselves and their interaction with hydrocarbons and surfaces through, for example, the oleophobic effect make them prime candidates as dopants for surface modification through adsorption. We propose an experiment to understand the driving force behind the surface adsorption and induced structure within a mixture of bulk cyanobiphenyls at both fluorinated and non-fluorinated surfaces by neutron reflection. This would lead to a better understanding of the fundamental forces in the system and aid in the design of new systems with improved surface properties.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089254
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089254
Provenance
Creator Professor Rob Richardson; Dr Laura Mears; Professor Terence Cosgrove; Dr Wiebe De Vos; Dr Stuart Prescott
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-07-22T12:09:44Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-07-29T07:19:26Z