Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline

Copolymer films of photoalignable liquid crystalline (LC) copolymethacrylates comprised of a phenyl benzoate mesogen connected with N-benzylideneaniline end moiety (NBA2) and benzoic acid (BA) side groups exhibit a photoinduced reorientation behavior. Significant thermally stimulated molecular reori...

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Autores principales: Nakajima, Gento, Kondo, Mizuho, Sakamoto, Moritsugu, Sasaki, Tomoyuki, Ono, Hiroshi, Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10057156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36987190
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15061408
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author Nakajima, Gento
Kondo, Mizuho
Sakamoto, Moritsugu
Sasaki, Tomoyuki
Ono, Hiroshi
Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro
author_facet Nakajima, Gento
Kondo, Mizuho
Sakamoto, Moritsugu
Sasaki, Tomoyuki
Ono, Hiroshi
Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro
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description Copolymer films of photoalignable liquid crystalline (LC) copolymethacrylates comprised of a phenyl benzoate mesogen connected with N-benzylideneaniline end moiety (NBA2) and benzoic acid (BA) side groups exhibit a photoinduced reorientation behavior. Significant thermally stimulated molecular reorientation attains a dichroism (D) greater than 0.7 for all copolymer films and a birefringence of 0.113–0.181. In situ thermal hydrolysis of the oriented NBA2 groups decreases the birefringence to 0.111–0.128. However, the oriented structures of the film are maintained, demonstrating a photo-durability, even though the NBA2 side groups photo-react. The hydrolyzed oriented films show higher photo-durability without changing their optical properties.
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spelling pubmed-100571562023-03-30 Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline Nakajima, Gento Kondo, Mizuho Sakamoto, Moritsugu Sasaki, Tomoyuki Ono, Hiroshi Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro Polymers (Basel) Article Copolymer films of photoalignable liquid crystalline (LC) copolymethacrylates comprised of a phenyl benzoate mesogen connected with N-benzylideneaniline end moiety (NBA2) and benzoic acid (BA) side groups exhibit a photoinduced reorientation behavior. Significant thermally stimulated molecular reorientation attains a dichroism (D) greater than 0.7 for all copolymer films and a birefringence of 0.113–0.181. In situ thermal hydrolysis of the oriented NBA2 groups decreases the birefringence to 0.111–0.128. However, the oriented structures of the film are maintained, demonstrating a photo-durability, even though the NBA2 side groups photo-react. The hydrolyzed oriented films show higher photo-durability without changing their optical properties. MDPI 2023-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10057156/ /pubmed/36987190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15061408 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Nakajima, Gento
Kondo, Mizuho
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Sasaki, Tomoyuki
Ono, Hiroshi
Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro
Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline
title Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline
title_full Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline
title_fullStr Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline
title_full_unstemmed Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline
title_short Photo-Durable Molecularly Oriented Liquid Crystalline Copolymer Film based on Photoalignment of N-benzylideneaniline
title_sort photo-durable molecularly oriented liquid crystalline copolymer film based on photoalignment of n-benzylideneaniline
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10057156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36987190
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym15061408
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