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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2012
Yukio Kizaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hajime Yamaguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuko Kizu, Yokohama, JP;
Masao Tanaka, Sagamihara, JP;
Akiko Hirao, Kawasaki, JP;
Yukio Kizaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hajime Yamaguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuko Kizu, Yokohama, JP;
Masao Tanaka, Sagamihara, JP;
Akiko Hirao, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal/polymer complex includes a liquid crystal material, a polymer, and a chiral agent. The liquid crystal material exhibits blue phase and contains liquid crystal molecules that are spirally arranged to form liquid crystal molecular cylinders having a spiral arrangement. The polymer maintains the arrangement and has a dendrimer-type structure including a dendrimer unit and a polymerizable unit bonded to an end of the dendrimer unit. The dendrimer unit contains a central atom and at least two branched structures bonded to the central atom and has a generation of two or more. The polymerizable unit contains a polymerizable group which can bond to a polymerizable group.