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Effect of Director Distortions on Polymer-Liquid Crystal Phase Separation

a r X i v : c o n d - m a t / 0 1 0 9 4 7 3 v 1 [ c o n d - m a t .s o f t ] 2 5 S e p 2 0 0 1 Effect of Director Distortions on Polymer-Liquid Crystal Phase Separation D. Voloschenko, O. P. Pishnyak, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and O. D. Lavrentovich Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA (February 1, 2008) Abstract We study photopolymerization in a low-molecular weight liquid crystal with non-uniform director gradients. Phase separation results in spatially non- uniform distribution of polymer density controlled by the distorted nematic matrix. Director-gradient-controlled polymerization provides a new and use- ful technique to assemble micron-scale polymer architectures. PACS number(s): 61.30.Gd, 64.75.+g Typeset using REVTEX 1 Composites of polymers and liquid crystals (LCs) are subject of intensive studies for electrooptical applications [1]. The most popular method to produce composites such as polymer-dispersed LCs (PDLCs) and polymer-stabilized LCs (PSLCs) is ptotoinduced phase separation in a mixture of a non-reactive LC and a reactive monomer. Morphology of the product depends on many factors, such as solubility [2], diffusivity [3], concentration [4] and reactivity of components, spatial distribution of light intensity [5], electric field gradients [6], time scales of polymerization [7–9], etc. Phase separation from the LC continuous state is of especial interest, as the morphology can be influenced by the orientational order of the LC solvent. For example [10], phase-separating droplets of isotropic fluid form chains parallel to the director n?, which specifies the average orientation of LC molecules. In PSLCs, polymer strands can align along n?, especially when formed from a mesogenic monomer [1,11]. However, it is not clear how the morphology would be altered if n? is distorted and these distortions are non-uniform in space. Experiments on periodically-distorted cholesteric gr