Patent ID: 8641923

Claim:
A liquid crystal mixture comprising an isotropic mixture of nematic liquid crystal molecules, a photo-polymerizable monomer, and a photoinitiator; wherein the photo-polymerizable monomer comprises a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: R 1 -A-R 2 [Chemical Formula 1] wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, A is a one-ring cyclic compound selected from a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C6 to C30 bicycloalkyl group, and an C6 to C30 aryl group, and R 1 and R 2 are independently hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted (meth)acrylate group, a substituted or unsubstituted vinylether group, a substituted or unsubstituted epoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted thiol group, or a combination thereof.