title: A giant polymer lattice in a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal.
abstract: Ultrasmall-angle synchrotron X-ray scattering measurements showed that a three-dimensional polymer lattice of a few 100 nm order with body-centered cubic O(8-) symmetry was formed in a polymer-stabilized blue phase liquid crystal. We obtained clear experimental evidence that the polymer chains condensed selectively in the disclinations within the blue phase during photo-polymerization of monomers in the blue phase.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-Koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan. kikuchi@cm.kyushu-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Izena
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Higuchi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okumura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Higashiguchi