Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry Lomonosov Moscow State University Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
2. Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences 1999/2 Na Slovance 182 20 Prague 8 Czech Republic
Abstract
AbstractStimuli responsive liquid crystalline polymers are a unique class of so‐called “smart” materials demonstrating various types of mesomorphic structures easily controlled by external fields, including light. In the present work we synthesized and studied a comb‐shaped hydrazone‐containing copolyacrylate exhibited cholesteric liquid crystalline properties with the pitch length of the helix being tuned under irradiation with light. In the cholesteric phase selective light reflection in the near IR spectral range (1650 nm) was measured and a large blue shift of the reflection peak from 1650 nm to 500 nm was found under blue light (428 or 457 nm) irradiation. This shift is related to the Z‐E isomerization of photochromic hydrazone‐containing groups and it is photochemically reversible. The improved and faster photo‐optical response was found after copolymer doping with 10 wt % of low‐molar‐mass liquid crystal. It is noteworthy that both, the E and Z isomers of hydrazone photochromic group are thermally stable that enable to achieve a pure photoinduced switch without any dark relaxation at any temperatures. The large photoinduced shift of the selective light reflection, together with thermal bistability, makes such systems promising for applications in photonics.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Subject
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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