Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Films for Liquid Crystal Alignment

Chun-Wei  Huang; Shie-Chang Jeng

doi:10.3390/colloids2010009

Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Films for Liquid Crystal Alignment

Chun-Wei Huang, Shie-Chang Jeng

Institute of Imaging and Biomedical Photonics

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Abstract

Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSSs) with nano-size cage structures have been conventionally incorporated into polymers to improve the polymers' physical properties. In this work, POSS films formed by using POSS nanomaterials with different thermal treatments have been implemented as liquid crystal (LC) alignment films instead of using conventional polyimide alignment films adopted in the LC displays industry. The homeotropic alignment of LCs anchored on POSS films was observed. The morphology and surface energy of POSS films were measured to study their effects on LC orientation anchored on the POSS films.

Original language	English
Article number	9
Journal	Colloids and Interfaces
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/colloids2010009
State	Published - 1 Mar 2018

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