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The electro-optical effects and aggregation states of liquid crystalline polymer (LCP)/ low molecular weight liquid crystal (LC) composite and ferroelectric liquid crystalline copolymer (FLCP) have been investigated. The nematic LCP was observed to be miscible with the nematic LC over wide ranges of concentration and temperature. The binary mixture showed an induced smectic phase in the range of 80/20-20/80 mol%. The electro-optical effects of the LCP/LC composite in an induced smectic phase could be classified into the turbid (light- scattering) and the transparent states upon application of AC and DC electric fields, respectively. The transient scattering mode was obtained by repeated voltage polarity reversal in the chiral smectic C phase of FLCP. The reversible transparent-opaque (light scattering) change was observed in the chiral smectic C state upon application of DC and AC electric fields, respectively. Both transparent and light-scattering states of the LCP/LC composite and the FLCP could be maintained, even after the electric field had been turned off (memory effect). The bistable effects of LCP/LC composite and FLCP are opposite under the same conditions. A novel type of electro-optical effect on light scattering was obtained for liquid crystalline polymer in the smectic states.
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Chiu Hwang, J., Chyi Tsai, Y. Bistable light scattering effects in a (side chain liquid crystalline polymer)/(low molecular weight liquid crystal) composite and in a ferroelectric liquid crystalline polymer. J Polym Res 3, 257–263 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01493496
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