Probing the Supra-Nano-Scale and Micron-Scale Structure of Liquid-Crystal and Polymer Dispersions Using Laser Light Scattering

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2005

Department

Physics and Astronomy

School

Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Abstract

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.

Publication Title

Journal of the Society For Information Display

Volume

13

Issue

9

First Page

793

Last Page

798

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