Surface memory effect at the liquid-crystalpolymer interface

Abstract

A series of experiments was conducted to study the surface memory effect at the liquid-crystal polymer interface. The results show that the liquid-crystal molecules appear to have anchored at the memory-imprinted polymer surface with a rather weak azimuthal anisotropy in their orientational distribution arising from reorientation in local surface potential wells by the bulk alignment. © 1992 The American Physical Society.