Abstract
Electroresponsive columnar liquid crystalline urea compounds, N,N’-bis(3,4,5-trialkyloxyphenyl)ureas 1 and 2 possessing six and four terminal double bonds, were photopolymerized by UV irradiation in the liquid crystal phases to give polymerized compounds, labeled P-1-Colh and P-2-Colh, that possessed a hexagonal columnar structure. Furthermore, the photo polymerization of 1 and 2 sandwiched between two indium tin oxide-deposited glass plates with applying an electric field (20 V μm−1), produced polymerized compounds, P-1-Colh-E and P-2-Colh-E, and polarized light optical microscopy clarified that the columns polymerized were aligned in parallel to the applied electric field. In addition, by the phenomenon that polar substances absorb laser light (λ = 1064 nm) and emit second harmonic generation light (λ = 532 nm), the difference in electro-response between P-1-Colh-E and P-2-Colh-E has been revealed. The former was a polymer whose macropolarity was completely fixed, and the latter was a polymer whose macropolarity was controllable by applying an external voltage.
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