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  • Title: Small surface pretilt strikingly affects the director profile during Poiseuille flow of a nematic liquid crystal.
    Author: Holmes CJ, Cornford SL, Sambles JR.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2010 Jun 18; 104(24):248301. PubMed ID: 20867340.
    Abstract:
    Conventional nematic liquid crystal cells are fabricated with small surface pretilt of the director induced by rubbed polymer alignment. Depending on the orientation of the bounding surfaces, this may lead to two slightly different untwisted director configurations, splay and parallel. This small difference leads to remarkably different director profiles during pressure-driven flow, observed here using optical conoscopy. Data show excellent agreement with numerical modeling from Leslie-Ericksen-Parodi theory.
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