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SOFT MATTER
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 835-841Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b816274c
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- EPSRC [EP/D079128/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D079128/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/D079128/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Polymer stabilisation of a state similar to a twist grain boundary phase is demonstrated. Layers of micrometre thick polymer networks are formed which exhibit discretely varying orientational order. The polymer network shows a high degree of orientational order with an order parameter of approximately S approximate to 0.8, which is equal for all layers formed, and equivalent to that of a polymer network formed in the smectic A* phase. The mechanism of photo-polymerisation in liquid crystalline defect phases is discussed and may offer potential for the synthesis of photonic structures in the visible and IR wavelength range.
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