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Probing the supra‐nano‐scale and micron‐scale structure of liquid‐crystal and polymer dispersions using laser light scattering
Author(s) -
Warren Garfield T.,
Whitehead J. B.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of the society for information display
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1938-3657
pISSN - 1071-0922
DOI - 10.1889/1.2080519
Subject(s) - citation , scale (ratio) , computer science , physics , library science , quantum mechanics
— Liquid‐crystal and polymer dispersions are typically made utilizing one of three methods of phase separation. Laser light scattering is a convenient method to probe the evolving supra‐nano scale and micron scale morphology of phase‐separating mixtures. We used laser light scattering to probe the evolving supra‐nano and micron scale structure of phase‐separating liquid crystal and monomer mixtures induced with photon‐initiated polymerization. We report on the evolutionary phase separation for mixtures of the E7 and the thiol‐ene based optical adhesive Norland 65 from low to high weight percentages of E7.