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A polyimide that is designed to produce homeotropic liquid-crystal orientation is baked at high temperature and rubbed with a cotton cloth. It is found that the resulting pretilt angle of the liquid-crystal pentylcyanobiphenyl is continuously controllable from 0° to nearly 40°.
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