CHEN Sheng-liang;LIU Xiang-yang;GU Yi. Influence of Polymerization Process on Liquid Crystal Alignment on Polyimide with Side Chain Containing Biphenyl Unit[J]. 液晶与显示, 2009,24(5): 656-660
CHEN Sheng-liang;LIU Xiang-yang;GU Yi. Influence of Polymerization Process on Liquid Crystal Alignment on Polyimide with Side Chain Containing Biphenyl Unit[J]. 液晶与显示, 2009,24(5): 656-660DOI:
Influence of Polymerization Process on Liquid Crystal Alignment on Polyimide with Side Chain Containing Biphenyl Unit
Polyimide(PI) is widely used as alignment layers in liquid crystal display industry
owing to their many excellent properties
such as heat resistance
dielectric properties
mechanical properties
chemical resistance
film-forming ability. One of the important parameters of alignment layers is pretilt angles of liquid crystal molecules. In this paper
a series of PIs containing biphenyl side chain polymerized from C6-DABBE/ODA/ODPA were synthesized via one-step method and two-step method. By means of ATR-FTIR
atomic force microscope (AFM)
surface energy
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS)
the basic characters of PI films were investigated.The LC molecule alignment ability induced by polyimide alignment films and the profile of polyimide surfaces rubbed were also studied through pretilt angles.The results showed that liquid crystal on PI (C6-DABBE/ODA/ODPA) prepared by both one-step method and two-step method both could get good alignment.The pretilt angles of LC increased along with the density of side chain for higher enrichment of side chain on the surface
polyimides prepared by two-step method could show bigger pretilt angles.
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