2C09 SmC^*相を持つ液晶エラストマーの合成とモノドメイン作成

抄録

Up to now, liquid crystalline elastomers have been strenuously studied to obtain high orientation by mechanical fields. Here the orientation mechanism of biaxial smectic C^* elastomers in mechanical shear fields has been investigated. A significant influence of a shear field on the orientation of the smectic C^* elastomer is confirmed. In addition, we succeeded in obtaining a monodomain sample of the smectic C^* elastomer by this process.