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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 20, 期 6, 页码 914-920出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200902140
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- EPSRC [GR/S59826/01, EP/G032726/1]
- ESF Eurocores SONS2
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology [R31-10013]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E033571/1, EP/G032726/1, EP/C006755/1, GR/S59826/01] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/E033571/1, EP/G032726/1] Funding Source: UKRI
A novel method of creating planar aligned columnar discotic liquid crystals (cDLCs) on surfaces, which also gives control over the azimuthal angle, is presented. Surfaces are chemically patterned with stripes via microcontact printing of organothiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold, or via deep UV patterning of organosilane SAMs on silicon. These are then used to isolate long droplets of cDLCs by dewetting in the isotropic phase. Upon cooling from the isotropic into the hexagonal columnar phase, polarizing microscopy reveals that the cDLC aligns in a planar orientation. Results for three triphenylene derivatives (HAT-6; HHTT, H7T) and for a phthalocyanine derivative (8H(2)Pc) are presented. H7T and HAT-6 are found to align with the director perpendicular to the stripe direction, but HHTT and 8H(2)Pc align parallel to the stripe direction. This relatively simple new method for creating planar aligned columnar phases of DLCs gives control over the azimuthal angle: a condition required for organic field-effect transistor applications of cDLCs.
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