Effects of reaction temperature on electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films fabricated by nucleophile-initiated thiol-ene click reaction
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Effects of reaction temperature on electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films fabricated by nucleophile-initiated thiol-ene click reaction
Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and DisplaysVol. 32, Issue 12, Pages: 968-972(2017)
Yuan-hong MAO, Lei-shan SHAO, Jing-jing LI, et al. Effects of reaction temperature on electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films fabricated by nucleophile-initiated thiol-ene click reaction[J]. Chinese journal of liquid crystals and displays, 2017, 32(12): 968-972.
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Yuan-hong MAO, Lei-shan SHAO, Jing-jing LI, et al. Effects of reaction temperature on electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films fabricated by nucleophile-initiated thiol-ene click reaction[J]. Chinese journal of liquid crystals and displays, 2017, 32(12): 968-972. DOI: 10.3788/YJYXS20173212.0968.
Effects of reaction temperature on electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films fabricated by nucleophile-initiated thiol-ene click reaction
Photo-polymerization-induced phase separation is a most widely used method to fabricate polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films. Meanwhile
dichroic dye is usually introduced into PDLC films to enhance the contrast ratio. However
until now
commercial dye-doped PDLC films are still very few
because UV-light can make dye decompose in the process of photo-polymerization-induced phase separation and dye absorbs UV-light causing the polymerization rate of the prepolymer to slow down. Recently
nucleophile-initiated click reaction
which can be processed without UV-light
is a research hotspot in synthetic chemistry. Thus
fabricating PDLC films via click reaction initiated by nucleophile may hopefully overcome the shortcomings of traditional photo-polymerization-induced phase separation method. In our work
PDLC films were prepared via thiol-ene click reaction initiated by nucleophile. The influences of reaction temperature on electro-optical properties of PDLC were investigated. It was found that reaction temperature influenced the electro-optical properties of PDLC films by changing the droplets size of liquid crystal. With the increase of reaction temperature
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