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Dual Photo‐functionalized Amphiphile for Photo‐reversible Liquid Crystal Alignments
Author(s) -
Kim DaeYoon,
Lee SangA,
Park Minwook,
Jeong KwangUn
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201405461
Subject(s) - amphiphile , materials science , liquid crystal , polymer , fabrication , polymerization , layer (electronics) , dual (grammatical number) , nanotechnology , optoelectronics , composite material , copolymer , medicine , art , alternative medicine , literature , pathology
Without the conventional polymer‐based liquid crystal (LC) alignment process, a newly synthesized dual photo‐functionalized amphiphile (abbreviated as ADMA 1 ) was successfully applied as a robust photo‐reversible LC alignment layer by self‐assembly and photo‐polymerization. The LC alignment layer constructed by directly adding dual photo‐functionalized amphiphiles into LC media significantly cuts the manufacturing cost as well as opens new doors for the fabrication of novel electro‐optical devices.