Local and global ordering in rodlike polymer monolayers at the air-water interface

The compressed monolayers of a rodlike polymer at the air-water interface were transferred onto solid substrates by a horizontal lifting method and studied by the liquid crystal alignment technique. It has been found that the rodlike polymer monolayers have a well ordered orientation on a local region while on a larger scale they consist of disordered domains within which the polymers are uniformly oriented. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.