Hierarchically Structured Stimuli-Responsive Liquid Crystalline Terpolymer-Rhodamine Dye Conjugates.

ABSTRACT: Optically responsive materials are applied in sensing, actuators, and optical devices. One such class of material is dye-doped liquid crystal polymers that self-assemble into cholesteric mesophases that reflect visible light. We report here the synthesis and characterization of a family of linear and mildly crosslinked terpolymers prepared by the ROMP of norbornene-based monomers. The three monomers were composed of (i) rhodamine dye through one or two norbornene end groups utilizing flexible C₁₀-alkane spacers, (ii) a cholesteryl liquid crystal (LC) using C₉-alkane spacers, and (iii) PEG side chains. We investigated how these architectural variations in these terpolymers impacted their hierarchically self-assembled mesophase properties. We probed their composition, m

SUBMITTER: Vaidya S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11767871 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature