Properties and Application of UV-Curable Liquid Crystals

Abstract

Some classes of UV-curable liquid crystals which are monoacrylates having no methylene spacers in a side chain have been prepared. The UV-curable liquid crystals have effects to reduce the driving voltage and the hysteresis for a light scattering display of Polymer Network liquid crystals prepared by photo-polymerization-induced phase separation. The alignment of nematic liquid crystals on the cured polymer of monomers including the UV-curable liquid crystals varies with the concentration in monomers. The cured polymer of the UV-curable liquid crystals in liquid crystalline host has polymer stabilization effect and has less influence on the motion of liquid crystalline host.