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Langmuir Films Of Flexible Polymers Transferred To Aqueous/Liquid Crystal Interfaces Induce Uniform Azimuthal Alignment Of The Liquid Crystal, Michael I. Kinsinger, Maren E. Buck, Maria Victoria Meli, Nicholas L. Abbott, David M. Lynn
Langmuir Films Of Flexible Polymers Transferred To Aqueous/Liquid Crystal Interfaces Induce Uniform Azimuthal Alignment Of The Liquid Crystal, Michael I. Kinsinger, Maren E. Buck, Maria Victoria Meli, Nicholas L. Abbott, David M. Lynn
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We reported recently that amphiphilic polymers can be assembled at interfaces created between aqueous phases and thermotropic liquid crystals (LCs) in ways that: (i) couple the organization of the polymer to the order of the LC and (ii) respond to changes in the properties of aqueous phases that can be characterized as changes in the optical appearance of the LC. This investigation sought to characterize the behavior of aqueous-LC interfaces decorated with uniaxially compressed thin films of polymers transferred by Langmuir-Schaefer (LS) transfer. Here, we report physicochemical characterization of interfaces created between aqueous phases and the thermotropic LC 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) …