Abstract
ABSTRACT Photorecording materials have been applied for information recording. Herein, a cinnamate liquid crystal with an enantiotropic nematic phase was synthesised, which can be isomerised and polymerised under the irradiation of the 365-nm UV light. Cholesteric liquid crystal polymer network (CLCN) films were prepared using the mixtures of it, LC242, a chiral dopant and a photoinitiator. The CLCN films possess a slight gradient helical pitch which increases from the bottom to the top of the films. The formation of this structure should be driven by the photoisomerisation of the cinnamate. Under the irradiation of 365-nm UV light with a low intensity, the CLC mixtures show a photochromic behaviour which is proposed to be driven by the formation of oligomers. Based on this, the CLC mixtures can be applied for optical recording.
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