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Light-Controllable Chiral Photochromic Multifunctional Liquid Crystal Polymers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Abstract
A new family of light-controllable chiral photochromic multifunctional liquid crystalline (LC) side-chain acrylic polymers consisting of nematogenic, chiral and photochromic monomer units was obtained. The new principle of photoregulation of the helical supramolecular structure and optical properties of the binary and ternary chiral photochromic LC polymers based on the change of helical twisting power of the chiral photochromic monomer units was developed. The features of photooptical behaviour of LC polymers possessing the dual photochromism and the peculiarities of optical data recording based on the photochemical spectral gap burning were presented and discussed. The synthesized polymers are shown to be promising candidates for colour data recording and storage.
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