Abstract
AbstractThe polar alignment layer (AL) surface provided relatively small liquid crystal (LC) pretilt angles while polyimides with long alkyl side chains gave relatively large LC pretilt angles. The results suggest that LC pretilt angles, in addition to an anchoring effect, are greatly affected by both electronic and steric interactions between LC molecules and a polyimide alignment layer surface. Rubbing with a cotton cloth induces functional groups, side chains, and repeat units at the surface of a liquid crystal polyimide AL to re‐orient. It was discovered that rubbing induced polar functional groups and repeat units to re‐orient out‐of‐the‐plane of the surface, and it made non‐polar aliphatic side chains partially re‐orient inwards, toward the bulk of the film.
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