Application of retardation-modulation polarimetry in studies of nanocomposite materials
arXiv:1904.10268 · doi:10.1109/TCSET.2018.8336248
Abstract
We demonstrate an application of retardation-modulation polarimetry in studies of nanocomposite materials. Molecular ordering is explored on both nonchiral and chiral liquid crystals (LCs) in the bulk state and embedded into parallel-arrays of cylindrical channels of alumina or silica membranes of different channel sizes (12-42 nm). Two arms polarimetry serves for simultaneous measurements of the birefringence retardation and optical activity characterizing, respectively, orientational molecular ordering and chiral structuring inside nanochannels.
Conference article, 5 pages, 5 figures
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