Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.365, 1253-1260, 2001
Phase behaviour of polymer-liquid crystal and polymer-polymer blends
DSC and optical microscopy were used to study the phase behaviour of blends of two members of a group of side-chain cholesteric liquid crystalline silicones. One of these siloxane-based polymers forms a single blue phase. The experimental phase diagram is constructed and then compared to the case in which one of the polymers is replaced by a chiral nematic liquid crystal, which also forms a blue phase.