16. Bright field image of banded texture in lyotropic liquid crystals of polydiacetylene
writer：Wei Wang, Günter Lieser, Gerhard Wegner
keywords：lyotropic liquid crystal
source：期刊
specific source：Die Makromolekulare Chemie
Issue time：1993年
Formation of a banded texture was observed in thin films of a polydiacetylene prepared from the lyotropic nematic phase subject to flow. The banded texture was experimentally investigated by polarizing light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The banded structure is initially formed in a nematic phase of the polymer and could be imaged by TEM after its transformation to a lamellar phase which is the polymer analogon to a smectic phase in low-molecular-weight compounds. A mathematical description of the texture is given. During further relaxation of the system in the lyotropic state the initial orientation is lost by the formation of disclinations.