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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
卷 62, 期 2, 页码 2310-2316出版社
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.2310
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Phase diagrams of unpolymerized and UV-polymerized 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate (EHA) mixtures with the liquid crystal E7 are established using optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. Both diagrams show upper critical solution temperature behavior. From 50 to 90 wt % liquid crystal (LC), the (I + I) phase located between the (N + I) and (I) phases was clearly shown. The nematic phase inside the droplets exhibits a twisted radial structure indicating that homeotropic anchoring occurs at the polymer interface. The experimental phase diagrams were successfully analyzed using a model based on the Flory-Huggins theory of isotropic mixing supplemented with the Maier-Saupe theory of nematic order. The LC solubility limit in the polymer matrix and the fractional amount of LC contained in the droplets were deduced from the calorimetric measurements. For the specific composition EHA/E7 (50:50), the scattering and morphological properties of the films were studied as a function of time elapsed after UV exposure. Drastic changes in the size, shape, spatial distribution, and number density of nematic droplets were observed and analyzed in terms of coalescence/diffusion phenomena.
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