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Light-Controllable Chiral Photochromic Multifunctional Liquid Crystal Polymers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Valery P. Shibaev
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Moscow State University Lenin Hills, 19899 Moscow, Russia
Alexey Yu. Bobrovsky
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Moscow State University Lenin Hills, 19899 Moscow, Russia
Natalia I. Boiko
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Moscow State University Lenin Hills, 19899 Moscow, Russia
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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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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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