主催: 一般社団法人日本液晶学会
会議名: 2016年 日本液晶学会討論会
開催地: 大阪工業大学 大宮キャンパス
開催日: 2016/09/05 - 2016/09/07
We successfully fabricated liquid crystalline (LC) shells showing a crystalline phase or high viscosity at the room temperature by using a glass microcapillary system. The specific additive solution enables high viscosity and crystalline LC materials to flow without temperature control, and it can quickly diffuse to the outer phase at the moment of encapsulation, and then, the isotopic (Iso)-to-LC phase transition and the stabilization of core-shell structure occur. After the encapsulation the director fields in the LC shell can be aligned, indicating that the additive solution is removed from the shell phase completely. In particular, we have successfully fabricated chiral smectic C shells for the first time; they exhibited focal conic flower textures and stripes corresponding to the helical superstructure.