Liquid crystal/polymer composite
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYukio Kizaki, Hajime Yamaguchi, Yuko Kizu, Masao Tanaka, Akiko Hirao
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AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsYukio Kizaki, Hajime Yamaguchi, Yuko Kizu, Masao Tanaka, Akiko Hirao
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According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal/polymer complex includes a liquid crystal material, a polymer, and a chiral agent. The liquid crystal material exhibits blue phase and contains liquid crystal molecules that are spirally arranged to form liquid crystal molecular cylinders having a spiral arrangement. The polymer maintains the arrangement and has a dendrimer-type structure including a dendrimer unit and a polymerizable unit bonded to an end of the dendrimer unit. The dendrimer unit contains a central atom and at least two branched structures bonded to the central atom and has a generation of two or more. The polymerizable unit contains a polymerizable group which can bond to a polymerizable group.
A liquid crystal/polymer complex comprising:
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