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Polymerization of polymer/ferroelectric liquid crystal composites formed with branched liquid crystalline bismethacrylates

 

作者: C. ALLAN GUYMON,   RENFAN SHAO,   DIRK HOLTER,   HOLGER FREY,   NOEL A. CLARK,   CHRISTOPHER N. BOWMAN,  

 

期刊: Liquid Crystals  (Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 24, issue 2  

页码: 263-270

 

ISSN:0267-8292

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1080/026782998207442

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

Polymerization and phase behaviour of a branched liquid crystalline bismethacrylate in a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) were characterized. Addition of the monomer increases the temperature range of the smectic A phase, and, at relatively low concentrations of monomer, the temperature range increases to more than 10 times that observed in the neat FLC. Other phases such as the smectic C* phase are no longer exhibited as the monomer interferes with the inherent tilt of the FLC molecules. After polymerization, the polymer network phase separates and the phase transition temperatures return to values close to those of the FLC. The monomer also shows a high degree of orientational order before polymerization, which is retained to a large extent after polymerization. The order in the polymer network results in considerable birefringence at temperatures well above the clearing point of the pure FLC. This behaviour is induced by the order of the polymer network and interactions of the FLC molecules with the network which prevent a fraction of the FLC molecules from exhibiting typical phase behaviour. In the formation of the branched liquid crystalline bismethacrylates/FLC composites, a steady increase is observed in the polymerization rate as the polymerization temperature increases and the order of the FLC phase decreases, a behaviour significantly different from that observed in other monomer/FLC mixtures for which the polymerization rate increases as the order of the FLC phase increases. Additionally, at appropriate polymerization temperatures around the clearing point, polymerization driven endothermic phase transitions may be observed.

 

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