Issue 80, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Photoisomerization-induced stable liquid crystalline cubic blue phase†

Min-Jun Gim,a   Sung-Taek Hur,a   Kyung-Won Park,a   Mongryong Lee,a   Suk-Won Choi*a  and  Hideo Takezoe*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information & Electronics, Kyung Hee University, Deogyeong-daero, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do 446-701, Republic of Korea
E-mail: schoi@khu.ac.kr
Fax: +82-31-201-2256

b Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
E-mail: takezoe.h.aa@m.titech.ac.jp

Abstract

We have succeeded in obtaining a photoinduced liquid crystalline cubic BP in a mixture of photoinactive and photoresponsive bent-core mesogens. The UV stimulus can convert N* to cubic BP through photoisomerization of the azobenzene linkages included in the photoresponsive bent-core molecule.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC34114J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Jun 2012
Accepted
20 Aug 2012
First published
21 Aug 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 9968-9970

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Photoisomerization-induced stable liquid crystalline cubic blue phase

M. Gim, S. Hur, K. Park, M. Lee, S. Choi and H. Takezoe, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 9968 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34114J

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