主催: 一般社団法人日本液晶学会
会議名: 2016年 日本液晶学会討論会
開催地: 大阪工業大学 大宮キャンパス
開催日: 2016/09/05 - 2016/09/07
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are unique materials with the strong coupling of molecular orientation and macroscopic shape. The LCE films with hybrid alignment (HNE), where the director configuration continuously changes from planar to vertical alignment along the thickness direction, show thermally induced large bending deformation as a result of a change in the degree of local nematic order. We investigate the bending deformation accompanying volume phase transition for the HNE films swollen in isotropic and nematic solvents.