Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 415-427 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology, Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals |
| Volume | 263 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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