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Printed Anisotropic Molecular Alignments

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The fabrication of ordered organic molecular layers is of fundamental interest in many opto-electronic applications. Needless to say, the performance of liquid crystal displays, organic light emitting devices, organic field effect transistors and organic photovoltaic cells all depends on achieving a required degree of molecular alignment . To date, several processes have been developed to achieve the alignments, including the rubbing, Langmuir-Blodgett, alignment transcription, flow coating, gravure coating, and slit coating methods. In this chapter, these fabrication methods will be introduced and discussed and future technologies will be considered.

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Kimura, M. (2015). Printed Anisotropic Molecular Alignments. In: Li, Q. (eds) Anisotropic Nanomaterials. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18293-3_13

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