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Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy
[Image: see text] Topological defects in liquid crystals (LCs) have been intensively studied and intentionally generated in an organized way recently because they could control the alignment and motion of LCs. We studied how the topological defects could change the molecular orientation/alignment fr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01611 |
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author | Sakanoue, Haruka Sohn, Woon Yong Katayama, Kenji |
author_facet | Sakanoue, Haruka Sohn, Woon Yong Katayama, Kenji |
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description | [Image: see text] Topological defects in liquid crystals (LCs) have been intensively studied and intentionally generated in an organized way recently because they could control the alignment and motion of LCs. We studied how the topological defects could change the molecular orientation/alignment from the observation of photo-induced orientation change of a photo-responsive LC. The photo-induced dynamics was observed by an LED-induced time-resolved polarization/phase microscopy with white light illumination. From the color image sequence, we found that the molecular orientation change started from the topological defects and the orientation change propagated as a pair of defects and was connected, and further disordering was induced as a next step after the initial orientation change finished. |
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spelling | pubmed-67146012019-09-06 Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy Sakanoue, Haruka Sohn, Woon Yong Katayama, Kenji ACS Omega [Image: see text] Topological defects in liquid crystals (LCs) have been intensively studied and intentionally generated in an organized way recently because they could control the alignment and motion of LCs. We studied how the topological defects could change the molecular orientation/alignment from the observation of photo-induced orientation change of a photo-responsive LC. The photo-induced dynamics was observed by an LED-induced time-resolved polarization/phase microscopy with white light illumination. From the color image sequence, we found that the molecular orientation change started from the topological defects and the orientation change propagated as a pair of defects and was connected, and further disordering was induced as a next step after the initial orientation change finished. American Chemical Society 2019-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6714601/ /pubmed/31497711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01611 Text en Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/authorchoice_ccby_termsofuse.html) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. |
spellingShingle | Sakanoue, Haruka Sohn, Woon Yong Katayama, Kenji Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy |
title | Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects
Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy |
title_full | Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects
Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy |
title_fullStr | Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects
Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy |
title_full_unstemmed | Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects
Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy |
title_short | Molecular Orientation Change Nearby Topological Defects
Observed by Photo-Induced Polarization/Phase Microscopy |
title_sort | molecular orientation change nearby topological defects
observed by photo-induced polarization/phase microscopy |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714601/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31497711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b01611 |
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