Photo-enhanced performance and photo-tunable degradation in LC ecopolymers

Tatsuo Kaneko

doi:10.1117/12.722232

9 May 2007 Photo-enhanced performance and photo-tunable degradation in LC ecopolymers

Tatsuo Kaneko

Proceedings Volume 6587, Liquid Crystals and Applications in Optics; 65870T (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.722232
Event: International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Photosensitive, liquid crystalline (LC) polymers were prepared by in-bulk polymerization of phytomonomers such as cinnamic acid derivatives. The p-coumaric acid (4HCA) homopolymer showed a thermotropic LC phase where a photoreaction of [2+2] cycloaddition occurred by ultraviolet irradiation. LC phase was exhibited only in a low molecular weight state but the polymer was too brittle to materialize. Then we copolymerized 4HCA with multifunctional cinnamate, 3,4 dihydroxycinnamic acid (caffeic acid; DHCA), to prepare the hyperbranching architecture. Many branches increased the apparent size of the polymer chain but kept the low number-average molecular weight. P(4HCA-co-DHCA)s showed high performances which may be attained through the entanglement by in-bulk formation of hyperbranching, rigid structures. P(4HCA-co-DHCA)s showed a smooth hydrolysis, an in-soil degradation and a photoreaction cross-linking from conjugated cinnamate esters to aliphatic esters. The change in photoconversion degree tuned the polymer performance and chain hydrolysis.

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Tatsuo Kaneko "Photo-enhanced performance and photo-tunable degradation in LC ecopolymers", Proc. SPIE 6587, Liquid Crystals and Applications in Optics, 65870T (9 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.722232

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