Planning for a class of small, multipurpose warships to operate in the littoral zone began in the early 2000s. The construction contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin's LCS team (Lockheed Martin, Gibbs & Cox, Marinette Marine, Bollinger Shipyards) in May 2004 for two vessels.

2014年7月28日 · The orientations of liquid crystals (LCs) anchored on monolayers formed from mixtures of chiral versus achiral molecules were compared. Changes in the enantiomeric excess of mixed monolayers of chiral dipeptides gave rise to continuous changes in the orientations of nematic LCs, allowing arbitrary t …

The surface-induced anchoring effect is a well-developed technique to control the growth of liquid crystals (LCs). Nevertheless, a defined nanometer-scale template has never been used to induce the anchored growth of LCs with molecular building units.

Scanning tunneling microscopy results at the solid/liquid interface reveal that a 2D covalent organic framework (COF-1) can offer an anchoring effect to template C 70 molecules into forming several LC mesophases, which cannot be obtained under other conditions.

Surface-induced ordering of liquid crystals (LCs) offers the basis of a label-free analytical technique for the detection of surface-bound biomolecules. The orientation-dependent energy of...

Chemical structures of A) dipeptides (* denotes the position of a chiral center) and B) mesogens used in the experiments reported here. The orientations of liquid crystals (LCs) anchored on...

2014年7月28日 · These striking differences in the anchoring of LCs on surfaces presenting chiral versus achiral molecules provide insights into the molecular origins of ordering transitions of LCs, and provide...

2018年11月1日 · In this study, a simple, rapid, and label-free sensor was developed for detecting the enzymatic activity of catalase (CAT) with liquid crystals (LCs) confined in microcapillaries. Inside a microcapillary functionalized with n-octyltrichlorosilane, aldehyde-doped LCs anchored radially so that a patte …

2014年11月26日 · The surface free energy of the LCs anchored among the polymer grains on LCPCF can be expressed as: \( \gamma_{LC - air} (\phi (V)) = \gamma_{CN} \times \sin^{2} \phi (V) + \gamma_{ph - ter} \times \cos^{2} \phi (V) \), where γ ph-ter, and γ alky-alko are the surface free energy of phenyl/terphenyl part, alkyl chain, and cyano group ...

2008年11月1日 · The planar alignment of liquid crystals (LCs) along the direction of nanogrooves has been generated. Twisting behavior of nematic LCs has been also observed with a perpendicularly assembled LC cell and the cell parameters can …