Effect of polymer structures on electro-optical properties of polymer stabilized liquid crystal films

被引：7

作者：

Wang S. ^{[1
]}

He J. ^{[1
]}

Zeng Y. ^{[1
]}

Yan B. ^{[1
]}

Wang Y. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Engineering, Sichuan University

来源：

Frontiers of Chemical Engineering in China | 2008年 / 2卷 / 3期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Electric-optical properties; Liquid crystal; Network morphology; Polymer network;

D O I：

10.1007/s11705-008-0054-8

中图分类号：

学科分类号：

摘要：

The polymer stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC) film is a relatively novel electro-optical material, which is generally obtained by dissolving a small amount of a bifunctional photoreactive monomer in a low molecular mass liquid crystal. In this paper, the PSLC films were prepared with photoreactive biphenyl methacrylate monomers by photopolymerization induced phase separation. The effects of liquid crystal concentration, curing time, monomer structures and alignment layer on the electro-optical properties of PSLC films were investigated. The results show that the transmittance in the OFF state (TOFF) increased with the liquid crystal concentration, but the driving voltage decreased. TOFF was also influenced by the curing time. Furthermore, when polyimide was used as alignment layer, the films prepared from the bifunctional monomer shows a higher TOFF, while those from the single functional monomer exhibited a deformed electro-optical curve due to the unsteady polymer networks. © Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH 2008.

引用

页码：265 / 268

页数：3

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