Liquid crystal composition and liquid crystal device and liquid crystal apparatus including the composition

摘要

A liquid crystal composition is principally constituted by at least a liquid crystal and a gel-forming compound forming a gel with the liquid crystal. The gel-forming compound has a discotic liquid crystal phase and has a property of assuming a supermolecular structure when it is in mixture with the liquid crystal. The supermolecular structure may preferably have at least one intermolecular interacting side having at least one -CONH- group allowing multidimensional intermolecular interaction.