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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.248301
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- HP
- EPSRC [EP/E02646X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E02646X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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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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