摘要:
The present invention relates to a marking on an item or substrate, which marking is based on a chiral nematic (also called cholesteric) liquid crystal precursor composition. Prior to curing the chiral liquid crystal precursor composition in the chiral liquid crystal state at least one optical property exhibited by the composition is modified by two modifying agents of different types in at least one area of the item or substrate.
摘要:
A liquid crystal polymer marking is obtainable by a process that comprises applying a chiral liquid crystal precursor composition onto a substrate, heating the composition to a first chiral liquid crystal state, applying to at least one area of the precursor composition a chiral dopant composition, heating the at least one area to bring same to a second chiral liquid crystal state, and subsequently curing and/or polymerizing the resultant product. This abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
摘要:
An liquid crystalline organic semiconductor material practical as an organic semiconductor is provided. The material is a liquid crystal composition having a smectic liquid crystal phase. The liquid crystalline organic semiconductor material has a distyrylbenzene structure of formula (1). When heated to a temperature range for the smectic liquid crystal phase followed by being cooled, the material takes on a solid state as a result of phase transition from the smectic phase. Wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or a group of general formula (2): Wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and B represents —(CH2)m—, —(CH2)m—O—, —CO—O—(CH2)m, —CO—O—(CH2)m—O—, —C6H4—CH2—O— or —CO—.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is an image forming method for forming an image on a reversible thermo-sensitive recording medium provided with a recording layer containing liquid crystal that exhibits a solid phase or a fixed phase at a room temperature and a cholesteric liquid crystal phase at higher temperature. Specifically, the image forming method comprises: a first heating process for heating the liquid crystal in a crystal phase to a first temperature that allows the liquid crystal to exhibit the cholesteric liquid crystal phase or an isotropic phase to form an image and for rapidly cooling the liquid crystal to fix thus formed image; and a second heating process for heating at least a part of an area of the recording medium containing at least a part of an area where the image has been formed to allow at least a part of the image to discolor or develop a color and for rapidly cooling the liquid crystal to fix thus discolored or developed image.
摘要:
A reversible recording medium has a support, a reversible light absorbing layer formed on the support, and, a reversible cholesteric reflection layer formed on the reversible light absorbing layer, containing a cholesteric liquid crystalline compound capable of assuming a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase reversibly showing iridescent colors by selective reflection. A method for reversibly recording an image in the above-mentioned recording medium, and a reversible recording apparatus using the above-mentioned recording medium are also disclosed.
摘要:
The invention relates to a process for generating a marking on an effect coating or molding compound comprising cholesteric liquid-crystalline main-chain or side-group polymers or comprising a combination of main-chain and side-group polymers, which comprises inducing a color change at the irradiated sites of the effect coating or molding compound by laser irradiation.
摘要:
A process for the production of extendable thermographic plates for matching the curvatures of the human body when thermography is carried out. In the process, a capsular ink formulation based on microencapsulated liquid crystals is applied by screen printing an elastomer plate of natural latex, the formulation being elastic and including, as a binder, a solution of polyvinyl alcohol modified by the addition of an inorganic cobalt salt which confers elasticity, and stability of the color-change temperatures of the liquid crystals.
摘要:
Luminosity values of a structure carrying information, in particular grey scale values, are transformed into corresponding isochromates. The transformation is effected by optically imaging the information carrying structure onto a layer of liquid crystals. By this means, a thermogram corresponding to the information carrying structure produced in the layer of liquid crystals, so that the luminosity values of the structure carrying information is transformed into isotherms in the layer of liquid crystals, and the isotherms are converted into isochromates as a result of the colour/temperature behaviour of the layer of liquid crystals.
摘要:
A liquid crystal memory device comprising a liquid crystal layer, means for preconditioning the layer so that at least some of its molecules will be slanted towards one of two possible tilt directions, means for causing at least some of the molecules of said liquid crystal layer to assume their preconditioned tilt direction, and means for determining which of said possible tilt directions has been assumed by the molecules of said liquid crystal layer is disclosed. The method of writing into this device comprises causing the molecules of selected portions of said liquid crystal layer to be preconditioned to slant towards one of two possible tilt directions, causing at least some of said preconditioned molcules to assume their preconditioned tilt direction, causing at least some of the molecules of other portions of said liquid crystal layer to be preconditioned to slant towards the other one of said two possible tilt directions, and causing at least some of said preconditioned molecules to assume their other preconditioned tilt direction.
摘要:
The disclosure is of a composite lamellar pellicle for producing thermographic patterns by means of liquid crystals which are spread upon an inner sheet and sandwiched between two outer sheets both of which have adequate mechanical strength for normal handling and at least one of which is transparent, all three layers preferably being poor conductors of heat and flexible without being elastic.