We report the results of a synchrotron x-ray reflectivity study of bulk liquid-crystal surfaces that are coated by thin wetting films of an immiscible liquid. The liquid-crystal subphase consisted of the nematic or isotropic phase of 4-octyl- 4;{'} -cyanobiphenyl (8CB), and the wetting film was formed by the fluorocarbon perfluoromethylcyclohexane (PFMC), a volatile liquid. The thickness of the...

0141-9382/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.displa.2010.12.006 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Liquid Crystal Institute Ohio 44242, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Ma). Thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) are the most popular flat panel displays now. Polarizer film is one of the most important components in the TFT-LCDs, which is a multi-layered complex...

Thin-film evaporation from a meniscus in a confined space, which is the basis for many two-phase cooling devices, is experimentally investigated. The meniscus formed by heptane, a highly wetting liquid, on a heated, fused quartz substrate is studied. Microscale infrared temperature measurements performed near the thin-film region of the evaporating meniscus reveal the temperature suppression ca...

In this paper, some experiments of liquid dispersion flow driven by explosion in vertical plane were carried out using a liquid explosive dispersion device with film cylindrical constraints. The separated time series describing the breakup shape and dispersion process of liquid were recorded with high speed CMOS camera. The experimental results were analyzed and some essential characteristics o...

and lone-pair electrons of its oxygen atom attached to the various sites in the latter case. The absorbance of the a band increased until the BET monolayer capacity of 1.1 mmol g-' was reached but stayed constant above this water content. The reason for this result could be that these free OH groups exist only on the surface of adsorbed layers or may remain inside the layer without hydrogen bon...

Failure of a liquid coating to remain continuous on a substrate that exhibits a significant equilibrium contact angle is a common occurrence in industrial applications. The term "reticulation" is sometimes used to describe the resulting formation of a pattern of defects. The failure may take the form of coating perforations and dewetting, and it may ultimately lead to a set of isolated drops. W...

A molecular dynamics study has been performed on a liquid film sheared between moving solid walls. Thermal phenomena that occur in the Couette-like flow were examined, including energy conversion from macroscopic flow energy to thermal energy, i.e., viscous heating in the macroscopic sense, and heat conduction from the liquid film to the solid wall via liquid-solid interfaces. Four types of cry...

Correlations that allow determination of gas film mass transfer coefficients (kGat , kGaw) and liquid film mass transfer coefficients (kLaw) for packing materials used in biofilters and biotrickling filters for air pollution control are presented. Lava rock, polyurethane foam cubes (PUF), Pall rings, porous ceramic beads, porous ceramic Raschig rings, and various compost–woodchips mixtures were...