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  2. Imprinting the Quasi Bookshelf Texture of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal into Nano-Scaled Polymer Fibrils
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Abstract

Polymer-stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals (PSFLCs) are made by photopolymerizing 3% reactive mesogenic monomer on a quasi bookshelf texture of a ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC). We observe the formation of nano-scaled polymer fibrils templated by the two dimensionally ordered host. The polymer fibrils capture the orientation of the host with thin polymer fibrils interweaving the smectic layers. The SEM study highlights the difference in morphology of the polymer fibrils depending on polymerization conditions; that is, polymerizing with or without the presence of an electric field. The polymer networks suppress the cone of rotation of FLC and thus, facilitate the switching and shorten the response time of the PSFLCs. We observed the threshold-less switching behavior in PSFLCs from samples polymerized with and without the field.
Format
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2002-01-01
Publication Title
Advances in Liquid Crystalline Materials and Technologies
Volume
709
First Page
9
Last Page
13
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Community
Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program
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Copyright 2002 Materials Research Society. Available on publisher's site at http://www.cambridge.org/th/academic/subjects/engineering/series/mrs-proceedings
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Kim, S., Suresh, S., & Chien, L.-C. (2002). Imprinting the Quasi Bookshelf Texture of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal into Nano-Scaled Polymer Fibrils (1–). Advances in Liquid Crystalline Materials and Technologies. https://oaks.kent.edu/node/929
Kim, Sang, S. Suresh, and Liang-Chy Chien. 2002. “Imprinting the Quasi Bookshelf Texture of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal into Nano-Scaled Polymer Fibrils”. Advances in Liquid Crystalline Materials and Technologies. https://oaks.kent.edu/node/929.
Kim, Sang, et al. Imprinting the Quasi Bookshelf Texture of a Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal into Nano-Scaled Polymer Fibrils. Advances in Liquid Crystalline Materials and Technologies, 1 Jan. 2002, https://oaks.kent.edu/node/929.