Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid crystalline elastomer films with high anisotropic thermal conductivities

Meng Wang; Jun Wang; Hong Yang; Bao-Ping Lin; Er-Qiang Chen; Patrick Keller; Xue-Qin Zhang; Ying Sun

doi:10.1039/c6cc00081a

Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid crystalline elastomer films with high anisotropic thermal conductivities

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Mar 21;52(23):4313-6. doi: 10.1039/c6cc00081a.

Authors

Meng Wang¹, Jun Wang², Hong Yang¹, Bao-Ping Lin¹, Er-Qiang Chen², Patrick Keller³, Xue-Qin Zhang¹, Ying Sun¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangsu Province Hi-Tech Key Laboratory for Bio-medical Research, Jiangsu Optoelectronic Functional Materials and Engineering Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, P. R. China. yangh@seu.edu.cn.
² Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics at the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China. eqchen@pku.edu.cn.
³ Institut Curie, Centre De Recherche, CNRS UMR 168, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France and Soft Materials Research Center and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309, USA.

PMID: 26960421
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc00081a

Abstract

Homeotropically-aligned main-chain and side-on liquid crystalline elastomer films are prepared by using LC thiol-ene and acrylate systems respectively. Evaluated by laser flash analysis, the room temperature thermal conductivities of these two LCP films in the film normal direction are both dramatically higher than those along the horizontal direction.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.