Polymer Architectures consisting of rotating fibers prepared by photopolymerization in a cholesteric phase

摘要

Hydrogen-bonded polymer films consisting of fine, extended fibers were prepared by photopolymerization of an acrylate monomer containing a benzoic acid group in the fingerprint or Grandjean textures of a cholesteric liquid-crystalline mixture. Scanning electron microscopy and circular dichroism spectroscopy revealed that the fibers, measuring about 400 nm in diameter, formed helical superstructures and that their helical axes corresponded to the cholesteric helical axes that existed in the LC mixture before photopolymerization.