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Photoinitiated Marangoni flow morphing in a liquid crystalline polymer film directed by super-inkjet printing patterns.


ABSTRACT: Slight contaminations existing in a material lead to substantial defects in applied paint. Herein, we propose a strategy to convert this nuisance to a technologically useful process by using an azobenzene-containing side chain liquid crystalline (SCLCP) polymer. This method allows for a developer-free phototriggered surface fabrication. The mass migration is initiated by UV-light irradiation and directed by super-inkjet printed patterns using another polymer on the SCLCP film surface. UV irradiation results in a liquid crystal-to-isotropic phase transition, and this phase change immediately initiates a mass migration to form crater or trench structures due to the surface tension instability known as Marangoni flow. The transferred volume of the film reaches approximately 440-fold that of the polymer ink, and therefore, the printed ink pattern acts as a latent image towards the amplification of surface morphing. This printing-aided photoprocess for surface inscription is expected to provide a new platform of polymer microfabrication.

SUBMITTER: Kitamura I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385296 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Photoinitiated Marangoni flow morphing in a liquid crystalline polymer film directed by super-inkjet printing patterns.

Kitamura Issei I   Oishi Kazuaki K   Hara Mitsuo M   Nagano Shusaku S   Seki Takahiro T  

Scientific reports 20190222 1


Slight contaminations existing in a material lead to substantial defects in applied paint. Herein, we propose a strategy to convert this nuisance to a technologically useful process by using an azobenzene-containing side chain liquid crystalline (SCLCP) polymer. This method allows for a developer-free phototriggered surface fabrication. The mass migration is initiated by UV-light irradiation and directed by super-inkjet printed patterns using another polymer on the SCLCP film surface. UV irradia  ...[more]

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