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A novel medium molecular mass liquid-crystalline (LC) material to form glassy nematic phase has been developed to provide uniformly aligned LC films. The LC material consists of an acrylic acid trimer as a core structure and a mesogenic moiety. The resulting LC trimer showed a nematic LC phase and vitrified to form monodomain films at room temperature. This glassy LC trimer is miscible with a chiral photochromic dopant, providing monodomain, aligned, defect-free cholesteric reflection films, the color of which is tunable by UV irradiation.
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Nakanishi, S., Ueda, M. Synthesis of Novel Glass-Forming Liquid Crystals Containing Acrylic Acid Trimer Core Unit and Mesogenic Moiety, and Their Use in Cholesteric Reflection Films. Polym J 39, 252–258 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1295/polymj.PJ2006115
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