Wettability of Nematic Liquid Crystals
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P. Neogi; Xianzhong Zhang
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Organic liquids such as nematic liquid crystals should wet solids with high surface energies like mica, yet they generally do not. In the model proposed here, the affinity to wet the solid in form of Hamaker forces is opposed by elastic effects due to nematic order. Results predict correctly that su