Influence of photopolymerization reaction kinetics on diffraction efficiency of H-PDLC undergoing photopatterning reaction in mixtures of acrylic monomer/nematic liquid crystals

Macromolecules

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3190-3197

  Meng, Scott ^a   Duran, Hatice ^a   Hu, Jun ^b   Kyu, Thein ^a   Natarajan, Lalgudi V ^c   Tondiglia, Vincent P ^c   Sutherland, Richard L ^d   Bunning, Timothy J ^d  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORY-HUGGINS FREE ENERGY; ISOTROPIC MIXING; PHOTOCURABLE ACRYLIC MONOMERS; PHOTODIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FREE ENERGY; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS;

EID: 34248532766     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma070135q     Document Type: Article

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