Figure 14
From: New strategies and implications for the photoalignment of liquid crystalline polymers
Schematic illustrations of photoalignment control using surface photoreactions. (a) Alignment control of liquid crystal (LC) molecules using surface photoreactions from the solid substrate side (command surface effect). (b) New proposed method to exert a command effect with a photoresponsive skin layer on the free (air) surface in polymer LC films. Adapted with permission.128 Copyright 2014, Nature Publishing Group. A full color version of this figure is available at Polymer Journal online.
