Qian T, Kim JH, Kumar S, Taylor PL
Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics. 2000 Apr;61(4 Pt B):4007-10. doi: 10.1103/physreve.61.4007.
A different phase-separation process is capable of producing a composite system consisting of a very thin layer of liquid crystal in contact with a similarly thin layer of polymer. The morphology of the polymer depends on the composition of the prepolymer-liquid crystal mixture and the rate of polymerization. A simple one-dimensional theory is able to describe the essential features of this process.