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  • Synthesis and Surface Anchoring Property of Partially Fluorinated Hockey Stick-Shaped Reactive Mesogens

  • Ui-Chan Nam# , Bo-Kyoung Park# , Tae-Joon Park, Sung-Il Yoon, Jae-Hoon Kim*, and E-Joon Choi†

  • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi 39177, Korea
    *Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04761, Korea

  • 부분 불소화된 하키스틱형 반응성 메소겐의 합성 및 표면 배향 특성

  • 남의찬# · 박보경# · 박태준 · 윤성일 · 김재훈* · 최이준†

  • 금오공과대학교 고분자공학과, *한양대학교 전자공학과

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  • Polymer(Korea) 폴리머
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    ISSN 0379-153X(Print)
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This Article

  • 2023; 47(3): 309-319

    Published online May 25, 2023

  • 10.7317/pk.2023.47.3.309
  • Received on Dec 13, 2022
  • Revised on Feb 1, 2023
  • Accepted on Feb 7, 2023

Correspondence to

  • E-Joon Choi

  • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi 39177, Korea

  • E-mail: ejchoi@kumoh.ac.kr