Abstract
A monomer with reactive diacrylate was mixed with a commercial ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) mixture and polymerized under U. V. irradiation together with the application of an electric field of ± 50 V and 10Hz to obtain polymer network stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystals (PNSFLC) . Polarized microscope and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to study the molecule texture and the polymer network structure. It is found that the polymer network formed in the SmC* phase is anisotropic and fibrils-like , and the PNSFLC cell shows a striped texture. The striped texture is explained by the elastic free energy theory.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1316-1317 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Wuli Xuebao/Acta Physica Sinica |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| State | Published - 1998 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)