Light-Controllable Chiral Photochromic Multifunctional Liquid Crystal Polymers

2001 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery P. Shibaev ◽  
Alexey Yu. Bobrovsky ◽  
Natalia I. Boiko
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Spectral Gap ◽  
Optical Data ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Data Recording ◽  
Acrylic Polymers ◽  
New Family ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Helical Twisting Power

ABSTRACTA new family of light-controllable chiral photochromic multifunctional liquid crystalline (LC) side-chain acrylic polymers consisting of nematogenic, chiral and photochromic monomer units was obtained. The new principle of photoregulation of the helical supramolecular structure and optical properties of the binary and ternary chiral photochromic LC polymers based on the change of helical twisting power of the chiral photochromic monomer units was developed. The features of photooptical behaviour of LC polymers possessing the dual photochromism and the peculiarities of optical data recording based on the photochemical spectral gap burning were presented and discussed. The synthesized polymers are shown to be promising candidates for colour data recording and storage.

scholarly journals Engineering Achiral Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Chiral Self-Recovery

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (21) ◽  
pp. 11980
Author(s):  
Tengfei Miao ◽  
Xiaoxiao Cheng ◽  
Yilin Qian ◽  
Yaling Zhuang ◽  
Wei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Uv Light ◽  
Helical Structure ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Polymeric Liquid ◽  
Crystalline Polymers ◽  
Liquid Crystal System ◽  
And Storage

Flexible construction of permanently stored supramolecular chirality with stimulus-responsiveness remains a big challenge. Herein, we describe an efficient method to realize the transfer and storage of chirality in intrinsically achiral films of a side-chain polymeric liquid crystal system by combining chiral doping and cross-linking strategy. Even the helical structure was destroyed by UV light irradiation, the memorized chiral information in the covalent network enabled complete self-recovery of the original chiral superstructure. These results allowed the building of a novel chiroptical switch without any additional chiral source in multiple types of liquid crystal polymers, which may be one of the competitive candidates for use in stimulus-responsive chiro-optical devices.

Discotic columnar liquid-crystalline polymer semiconducting materials with high charge-carrier mobility via rational macromolecular engineering

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 3286-3293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Mu ◽  
Xingtian Hao ◽  
Jian Chen ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Chunxiu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Crystalline Polymer ◽  
Charge Carrier Mobility ◽  
Optoelectronic Device ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Semiconducting Materials ◽  
Organic Semiconducting Materials ◽  
Device Applications

Well-prepared side-chain discotic liquid crystal polymers with shorter spacers in ordered columnar phases are fascinating and promising cost-effective, solution-processable organic semiconducting materials for various potential optoelectronic device applications.

scholarly journals Polysiloxane-Based Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers: From Synthesis to Structure–Phase Transition Behavior Relationships

Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lanying Zhang ◽  
Wenhuan Yao ◽  
Yanzi Gao ◽  
Cuihong Zhang ◽  
Huai Yang
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Molecular Design ◽  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Polymer Materials ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Thermal Stabilities ◽  
Structure Phase Transition

Organosilicon polymer materials play an important role in certain applications due to characteristics of much lower glass transition temperatures (Tg), viscosities, surface energy, as well as good mechanical, thermal stabilities, and insulation performance stemming from the higher bond energy and the larger bond angles of the adjacent silicon-oxygen bond. This critical review highlights developments in the synthesis, structure, and phase transition behaviors of polysiloxane-based side chain liquid crystal polymers (PSCLCPs) of linear and cyclic polysiloxanes containing homopolymers and copolymers. Detailed synthetic strategies are elaborated, and the relationship between molecular structures and liquid crystalline phase transition behaviors is systematically discussed, providing theoretical guidance on the molecular design of the materials.

SIDE CHAIN LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS FOR QUADRATIC NONLINEAR OPTICS

1996 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 735-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. GONIN ◽  
B. GUICHARD ◽  
M.C.J. LARGE ◽  
T. DANTAS DE MORAIS ◽  
C. NOËL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Statistical Models ◽  
Liquid Crystalline ◽  
Nonlinear Optical ◽  
Side Chain ◽  
Liquid Crystal Polymers ◽  
Mesogenic Group ◽  
Liquid Crystallinity ◽  
Polar Order

In this paper we consider the behavior of a number of side chain liquid crystal polymers having the same mesogenic group and relate their liquid crystalline behavior to their polarization and nonlinear optical properties. We show that the liquid crystallinity of the materials results in an enhancement of the polar order over that of isotropic materials, in qualitative agreement with molecular statistical models.

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