• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.280-287
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• 1992

Aromatic liquid crystalline polyesters were synthesized from terephthalic acid(TPA), biphenyl dicarboxylic acid(BPA) and hydroquinone(HQ) by solution polymerization. Effects of TPA/BPA ratio(by mole %) on the thermal properties, thermal stability and textures of mesophases were investigated with DSC, TGA, cross-polarized microscopy and X-ray diffractometer. The synthesized polymers in this study were thermotropic and showed nematic textures. Melting temperature($T_m$) and isotropization temperature($T_i$) of polymer increased and thermal stabilities of polymer were improved with the content of BPA. Most of the polymers in this study had crystallinity more than 30%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.183-187
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• 2011

The polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) cell has advantages such as sub-millisecond response time, wide viewing angle and no rubbing process for the alignment of liquid crystals. However, high operating voltage and low kerr constant of the polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal deteriorate the electro-optical characteristic of the polymer-stabilized BPLC cell. In this paper, we proposed novel zig-zag electrode in cell layout and confirmed that proposed electrode shape could reduce an over 25 percent of operating voltage for BPLC cell without degradation of tranmittance by using Kerr constant simulation.

• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.92-102
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• 1996

두 종류의 열방성 액정고분자와 세종류의 엔지니어링 고분자와의 블렌드들에 대해 유변학적/형구학적 연구를 한 결과 블렌드의 유동거동과 물성이현저히 다른 두 그룹으로 나 뉘어짐을 발견하였다. 즉 연속상의 조업온도가 분산상의 전이온도보다 높은 그룹A에 속하 는 블렌드의 전단점도/신장점도는 액정고분자를 첨가할수록 첨가할수록 감소하고 블렌드의 신장점도는 연속상의 그것처럼 신장변형률속도가 커질수록 증가하였다. 또한 분산상의 점도 가 연속상의 그것보다 작아서 분산상이 미세섬유구조의 형태로 존재하였다. 이와 대조적으 로 연속상의 조업온도가 액정고분자의 전이온도보다 낮은 그룹 B에 속하는 블렌드는 반대 의 거동을 보였고 분산상의 미세섬유구조가 존재하지 않았다. 그러나 연신변형이 주가 되는 방사공정을 거치면 그룹A와 B블렌드 공히 분산상이 비슷한 미세섬유구조의 형태로 존재하 고 기계적 성질도 크게 향상되는 결과를 보였다. 이는 블렌드내의 신장유동이 분산상의 섬 유구조형상에 결정적 역할을 하기 때문이라 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.545-554
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• 2017

This study is concerned with the stability of liquid crystal forming emulsifier with localized depend on change of pH using liquid crystal forming agent of advanced company. The liquid crystal emulsifying agent was localized using Sugar Crystal-LC (bio-tech Co., Ltd., Korea), and comparative samples were measured by using Nikkomulese-LC (Nikko Camicarls, Japan) and Alacel-LC (Croda Camicarls, UK). Liquid crystal formation was confirmed microscopically to show the formation of liquid crystal structure at acidic (pH=4.2), neutral (pH=7.0) and alkaline (pH=11.7). The particles of the liquid crystal were observed with a polarizing microscope according to the stirring speed. The stirring time was all the same for 3 minutes with a homo-mixer, and the stirring speed was increased to 2500 rpm, 3500 rpm and 4500 rpm to observe the liquid crystal state. As a result, it was found that the Korean surfactant was more stable and clear liquid crystal structure was formed than the two foreign acids. In the case of the UK in acid zone, the emulsion particle size was uniform and unstable. In the case of Japanese surfactant, it has similar structure and performance to those of localized Korean. It was found that Korean surfactant had superior emulsifying performance in acid zone compared with foreign products. It is possible to develop various formulations such as liquid crystal cream, lotion, eye cream, etc. using Sugar Crystal-LC emulsifier as an application cosmetic field, and it is expected that it can be widely applied as emulsifying technology for skin care external application in the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical industry as well as the cosmetics industry.

• Journal of Adhesion and Interface
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.161-168
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• 2014

New self-assembled discotic liquid crystals have been prepared through single hydrogen bonding between phenol and pyridine moieties, and their liquid crystalline properties were investigated. For the construction of discotic structure, we used phloroglucinol as a core molecule and trans-4-alkoxy-4'-stilbazoles with systematically varied alkyl chain lengths as peripheral units. FTIR results showed that the intermolecular hydrogen bonds between core and peripheral molecules are successfully formed, and the stability of the hydrogen bond is strongly influenced by molecular ordering. Discotic complexes exhibited different liquid crystalline phases depending on the length of alkyl chains around the discotic mesogen. The discotic complexes with longer alkyl chains showed hexagonal columnar mesophases, while the other complexes formed nematic columnar mesophases. These results indicated that the type of mesophase structure was strongly dependent on the alkyl chain length around the aromatic core.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.161-168
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• 2008

We propose a novel bistable nematic liquid crystal cell, which has a dual-frequency liquid crystal material and pixel-isolating polymer wall formed by an anisotropic phase separation of a mixture of liquid crystals and UV-curable pre-polymers. The proposed cell has two stable states of left- and right-handed ${\pi}$-twist. The switching between the two states is achieved by using a sequential waveform of low and high frequencies. A transmissive bistable liquid crystal display is designed, which achieves high contrast ratio by using the proposed cell and optical films.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.344-348
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose the electrode of the Patterned Vertical Aligned (PVA) cell [1] for high transmittance. We use the 'TechWiz LCD' for calculation of the director configuration and optical characteristics to ensure the results of the proposed electrode structure. In general, the transmittance of the PVA cell depends on the shape of the electrode and cell gap. In this work the width of gate line and data line of the improved electrode design is set to be equal to that of the PVA conventional. Instead, we modified the shape of the top and bottom electrode on order to decrease the area of the defect. For verification, we compared the calculated optical transmittance of the PVA cell with the proposed electrode structure to the conventional PVA cell . As a result, we can confirm that the optical loss due to the variation of the retardation the LC cell around electrode can be definitely decreased by the proposed electrode.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.334-338
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• 2005

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.71-75
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• 1998

Liquid crystalline compounds with amine terminal group and related linear and cross-linked liquid crystal polymers with epoxy resin structure were synthesized and characterized to develope matrix materials for polymer dispersed liquid display applications. Both linear and crosslinked side chain type liquid crystal polymers made with aromatic amine mesogens and ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether exhibited nematic texture as shown by polarized optical microscope(POM) and their transition temperatures were determined both by DSC and POM. Liquid crystal polymer samples also showed even-odd effect as the spacer length of aromatic amine mesogens were varied, however, the effect was samller than that of low molecular weight mesogens. Changes of nematic-to-isotropic transition($T_{NI}$) of crosslinked type polymer liquid crystals were also disscussed in relation to the concentration change of crosslinking agent 1,10-diaminodecane.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.12
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• pp.1071-1079
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• 2002

This paper reports a methodology and application lot calculating distribution of the director in a liquid crystal cell by a numerical technique. To calculate distribution of the director, we applied a three dimensional finite element method (FEM) and calculated the distributions of electric potential and director in the liquid crystal cell. We have considered the free-energy density in the bulk of liquid crystal cell and calculated the switching property by the Ericksen-Leslie equation and the Laplace equation. We have calculated the optical transmission with distribution of the director by Berreman's method and confirmed the threshold voltage and the response time.