Name : 23rd Symposium on Liquid Crystals
Number : 23
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : September 25, 1997 - September 27, 1997
Polymer networks containing liquid crytalline (LC) molecules were prepared by photopolymerization of LC mixtures containing LC acrylates and E7. The photopolymerization was carried out at a nematic phase and an isotropic phase in a homogeneous glass cell. Composite polymer networks having homogeneously aligned monodomain structure and transparency was obtained by polymerization at the nematic phase, while the composite polymer networks obtained at the isotropic phase showed a polydomain structure resulting in light scattering. The transparency and light scattering behavior were found to control by application of an electric field.Introduction
