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http://dx.doi.org/10.7473/EC.2019.54.1.14

Synthesis and Properties of Combined Main-Chain/Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers with Cholesteryl and Azobenzene Groups  

Gu, Su-Jin (Division of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Kongju National University)
Lee, Eung-Jae (Dept. of Bioenvironmental & Chemical Engineering, Chosun College of Science & Technology)
Bang, Moon-Soo (Division of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Kongju National University)
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Elastomers and Composites / v.54, no.1, 2019 , pp. 14-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
Main-chain/side-chain liquid crystalline polymers (MCSCLCPs) combined with an azobenzene group and a cholesteryl group were synthesized to impart light and temperature sensitivity to the polymer. The polymers were designed with the azobenzene unit as the mesogenic group of the main-chain and various compositions of the azobenzene and cholesteryl units as the mesogenic group of the side-chain. The chemical structures and physical properties of the synthesized polymers were investigated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, polarized optical microscopy, and ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy. All the MCSCLCPs were amorphous and exhibited enantiotropic liquid crystal phases; these polymers achieved the nematic phase with increasing content of the azobenzene group and exhibited the cholesteric phase with weak liquid crystallinity as the content of the cholesteryl group was increased. Furthermore, the polymers containing the azobenzene group showed photoisomerization when exposed to UV-Vis light, and the CP-A3C7 and CP-A5C5 polymers exhibited thermochromism in the temperature range of the liquid crystal phase.
Keywords
azobenzene; cholesteryl; combined LCP; photoisomerization; thermochromism;
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