REVERSE MODE ELECTRO-OPTICAL FILM COMPOSED OF ONE MUTUAL DISPERSION OF POLYMERS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS

摘要

A new type of composite material made by liquid crystals and polymers which is naturally transparent to light and becomes opaque by application of electric fields has been invented. In this material the two components (polymer and liquid crystal) are mutually dispersed one in the other. With respect to other similar inventions, concerning mutual dispersed liquid crystal and polymers, this new type of film presents the following advantages: it is highly adhesive to glass or plastic supports since it contains more than 50 % of the polymer component; it can be produced starting from a binary emulsion of a thermotropic liquid crystal and a non liquid crystal organic compound, differently from other mutual dispersion of liquid crystals and polymers, which are produced by polymerising liquid crystals solution. It has a haze free electrooptical transmission.