TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermo-optical properties of a polymer dispersed liquid crystalline polymer
AU - Heynderickx, Ingrid
AU - Broer, Dirk J.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - A side-chain liquid crystalline polymer dispersed into an amorphous polymer matrix can be used as a thermo-optical device that exhibits scattering at low temperatures and becomes transparent when heated above the clearing temperature of the liquid crystalline polymer. The blend of the side-chain liquid crystalline polymer and the UV-polymerizable monomer is yet two-phasic before polymerization and exhibits some additional phase separation during polymerization. Especially the thermal stability, but also the mechanical stability, of the thermo-optical device is considerably improved when dispersing a liquid crystalline polymer instead of a low molar mass liquid crystal into a polymer matrix.
AB - A side-chain liquid crystalline polymer dispersed into an amorphous polymer matrix can be used as a thermo-optical device that exhibits scattering at low temperatures and becomes transparent when heated above the clearing temperature of the liquid crystalline polymer. The blend of the side-chain liquid crystalline polymer and the UV-polymerizable monomer is yet two-phasic before polymerization and exhibits some additional phase separation during polymerization. Especially the thermal stability, but also the mechanical stability, of the thermo-optical device is considerably improved when dispersing a liquid crystalline polymer instead of a low molar mass liquid crystal into a polymer matrix.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873869041&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10587259508033601
DO - 10.1080/10587259508033601
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84873869041
SN - 1058-725X
VL - 263
SP - 415
EP - 427
JO - Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology, Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
JF - Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology, Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
IS - 1
ER -