Confinement Effects on Fluorinated Liquid Crystal Adsorption

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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. The interesting adsorption behaviour of fluorinated liquid crystal molecules at interfaces through, for example, the oleophobic effect, make them important for changing surface properties. We propose an experiment to understand how surface adsorption is affected as two surfaces approach each other, within our confinement cell using neutron reflection. The hypothesis that the adsorbed layers will undergo capillary condensation in the very thin film will be tested. This would lead to a better understanding of how confinement affects these surfactant-like liquid crystals.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091182
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091182
Provenance
Creator Professor Rob Richardson; Dr Laura Mears; Professor Terence Cosgrove; Dr Wiebe De Vos; Dr Stuart Prescott; Dr Stephen Abbott
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
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 2013-07-16T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-19T23:00:00Z