화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.560, 170-182, 2012
Surface-Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystals
cWe report the creation and study of an electrically controllable self-organized surface-polymer stabilized liquid crystal system. We use thin reactive mesogen films as alignment layers to build cells filled by a pure non-reactive nematic liquid crystal (LC). The application of external fields during the photo polymerization of the reactive mesogen layer allows us the control of scattering properties of obtained cells. We investigate the system's morphology and optical behaviour by using electro optical scattering and microscopy to show that the use of this approach enables very interesting performance compared to traditional "bulk" LC-based composite light shutters.