| abstract |
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a liquid crystal composition having excellent vertical alignment properties and burn-in resistance; and a liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal composition. The present invention provides a liquid crystal composition containing: at least one spontaneously aligning monomer; and two or more polymerizable monomers, wherein the at least one spontaneously aligning monomer has a first mesogen backbone, at least one polymerizable group represented by general formula (PG1), and at least one anchoring group, and the two or more polymerizable monomers are selected from the group consisting of polymerizable monomers represented by general formula (I) and having a chemical structure different from that of the spontaneously aligning monomer. |