报道了一种新型的以氢键为驱动力的液晶自组装光控取向膜,研究了薄膜的制备方法与光敏特性.通过聚(4-乙烯基吡啶)中的吡啶基团与光敏聚丙烯酰氧基肉桂酸间的氢键作用制备了LBL(1ayer-by-layer)型的自组装多层膜,制备过程的紫外.可见光谱表明,该组装过程为逐层、均匀沉积过程.傅里叶变换红外光谱表明,多层膜的成膜驱动力为氢键.用线性偏振紫外光辐照该薄膜,多层膜中与光矢量方向匹配的光敏基团发生[2+2]环加成反应,形成表面张力各向异性的薄膜.用该薄膜作为向列相液晶的取向膜制成平行液晶器件,在偏光显微镜下观察,发现获得了均一、稳定的取向效果.
A new type of hydrogen-bonded layer-by-layer (LBL) photoalignment film was fabricated and studied. The photosensitive hydrogen donor containing cinnamoyl groups (Poly (4-acryloyloxy)-cinnamic acid, PCA) was self-assembled with hydrogen accepter poly (4-vinylpyridine) (PVPy) in an organic solvent. Then a hydrogen-bonding- directed ultrathin film was formed. The uniformity and linear growth of the deposition procedure was proven by UV- Vis spectra and the interaction between PVPy and PCA was identified as hydrogen bonding using FT-IR spectroscopy. When linearly polarized ultraviolet light (LPUVL) irradiated the multilayer film, only the photosensitive double bond parallel to the polarization direction of LPUVL could be polymerized via [2+2] cycloaddition. After the irradiation an anisotropic film was prepared, and we used this anisotropic film as an alignment layer of nematic liquid crystals, and obtained uniform and stable alignment results.