Surface anchoring of rodlike molecules on corrugated substrates.
Surface anchoring of rodlike molecules on corrugated substrates.
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波纹基材上棒状分子的表面锚定。
DOI:
10.1063/1.2155529
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发表时间:
2006
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通讯作者:
Y. Shimizu
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作者:
K. Kiyohara;K. Asaka;H. Monobe;Naohiro Terasawa;Y. Shimizu
We studied the mechanism of surface anchoring of rodlike molecules on substrates with the surfaces corrugated at molecular scale by molecular-dynamics simulation. We constructed a model for substrates that can have anisotoropic topographical patterns such as corrugation. The structural and thermodynamic properties of rodlike molecules on the corrugated surfaces, including the elastic and anchoring properties, were calculated and the influence of the surface structure on the anchoring was discussed. We found that the rodlike molecules are aligned along the grooves of the corrugated surfaces guided by the anisotropic molecular interaction between the molecules and the corrugated surface. The strength of anchoring was found to be increased when the period of corrugation is decreased at molecular level.