Spatially resolved mapping of phase transitions in liquid-crystalline materials by X-ray birefringence imaging

Zhou, Yating, Patterson, Rhian, Palmer, Benjamin, Edwards-Gau, Gregory R, Kariuki, Benson ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8658-3897, Nambalan Sivaraman, Saleesh Kumar, Bruce, Duncan W, Dolbnya, Igor P., Collins, Stephen P, Malandain, Andrew and Harris, Kenneth D M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7855-8598 2019. Spatially resolved mapping of phase transitions in liquid-crystalline materials by X-ray birefringence imaging. Chemical Science 10 (10) , -. 10.1039/C8SC05285A

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Abstract

The X-ray Birefringence Imaging (XBI) technique, first reported in 2014, is a sensitive method for spatially resolved mapping of the local orientational properties of anisotropic materials. We report the first application of the XBI technique to characterize molecular orientational ordering in a liquid crystalline material, demonstrating significant potential for exploiting XBI measurements to advance structural understanding of liquid crystal phases.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Chemistry Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	2041-6520
Funders:	EPSRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 January 2019
Date of Acceptance:	21 December 2018
Last Modified:	22 Apr 2024 18:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/118189

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