Patent ID: 7780870

Claim:
A liquid crystal composition comprising a siloxane polymer, a nematic liquid crystal compound substituted with at least one fluorine atom, and at least one dichroic dye, wherein the siloxane polymer contains a repeating unit selected from the group consisting of a repeating unit represented by formula (1) and a repeating unit represented by formula (11): wherein in formula (1), V 1 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or a heteroaryl group, L 1 and L 2 represent divalent linking groups, respectively, and Ar 1 and Ar 2 each independently represents an aryl group or a heteroaryl group, and in formula (11), R 19 , R 20 , and R 21 each independently represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, M represents a liquid crystalline group, x represents 3 to 100, y represents 0 or more, and when y is 0, the polymer represented by formula (11) is a homopolymer, and when y is not 0, the polymer represented by formula (11) is a copolymer.