Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Synthesis and thermally enhanced photoinduced orientation of liquid crystalline polymer possessing vinyl end group

JH Lee, N Kawatsuki

Index: Lee, Jeong-Hwan; Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2007 , vol. 470, # 1 p. 19 - 29

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Abstract

Methacrylate polymer liquid crystals containing p-substituted 4-cinnamoyloxybiphenyl (CB) side group were synthesized. Two vinyl end groups were introduced to investigate the influence of the end group on the photoinduced reorientation behavior. Thermally enhanced photoinduced orientation of polymer thin films was performed by irradiating with linearly polarized ultraviolet (LPUV) light and annealing. The reorientation behavior was ...