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An Electrochemical Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Device for Quick and Low-Voltage Color Modulation
Published on: February 27, 2019
Photoinduced hyper-reflective cholesteric liquid crystals enabled via surface initiated photopolymerization
Michael E McConney1, Vincent P Tondiglia, Jennifer M Hurtubise
1Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, 3005 Hobson Way, WPAFB, OH, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 27, 2010
Abstract:
A structured polymer was synthesized by surface initiated photopolymerization in the presence of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC). The templated helical polymer (traversing 2/3 the cell thickness) was backfilled with an opposite handedness, photoresponsive CLC mixture yielding a photo-induced, large contrast, hyper-reflective (R > 99%) CLC film.
