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Photoinduced chirality in achiral liquid crystalline azobenzene polymers containing different polar side groups |
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| Authors: | Zhi Zheng Zhiqiang Su Jie Xu Jianjun Yang |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China b National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China c Center of Technical Service for Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China d Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China e Anqing Teachers College, Anqing 246011, China |
| Abstract: | Circular dichroism (CD) was induced in the films of two achiral liquid crystalline polymers, poly[(4′-(6-(methacryloyloxy)hexyl)oxy)-(4-X)azobenzene] (PM6X, X = C and N for cyano and nitro, respectively), by irradiation with one handed circularly polarized light (CPL) at 442 nm. The CD and UV spectra of the polymeric films suggest that left-CPL induces a left helical structure and right-CPL reverses the resulting structure into a right helix. For PM6C, the photoinduced CD values of the nematic film are much higher than in the casting and isotropic film. The photoinduced chirality of PM6C films is higher than PM6N due to a higher polarity of nitro groups in PM6N. The PM6N’s CD intensity around 450 nm is increased with the irradiation time of linearly polarized light (LPL) followed by left-CPL irradiation. The correlation between azobenzene chromophores and circularly polarized light will be discussed in the paper. |
| Keywords: | Photoinduced chirality Azobenzene chromophore Liquid crystalline polymer Alignment |
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