A giant polymer lattice in a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal

H. Kikuchi; S. Izena; H. Higuchi; Y. Okumura; K. Higashiguchi

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A giant polymer lattice in a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal†

H. Kikuchi,*^a S. Izena,‡^b H. Higuchi,^a Y. Okumura^a and K. Higashiguchi^c

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^a Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-Koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
E-mail: kikuchi@cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp

^b Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan

^c Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan

Abstract

Ultrasmall-angle synchrotron X-ray scattering measurements showed that a three-dimensional polymer lattice of a few 100 nm order with body-centered cubic O⁸⁻ symmetry was formed in a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal. We obtained clear experimental evidence that the polymer chains condensed selectively in the disclinations within the blue phase during photo-polymerization of monomers in the blue phase.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5SM00711A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 26 Mar 2015
Accepted: 24 Apr 2015
First published: 24 Apr 2015

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Soft Matter, 2015,11, 4572-4575

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