Issue 24, 2019

Paintable temperature-responsive cholesteric liquid crystal reflectors encapsulated on a single flexible polymer substrate

Abstract

This work describes the fabrication of temperature-responsive light reflectors deposited on flexible single substrates, a photonic cholesteric liquid crystal system encapsulated by a protective polymer layer generated by photo-enforced stratification. A bendable orange reflector was fabricated by this single application step. Furthermore, a blue shift of 400 nm of an infrared cholesteric reflector was demonstrated upon increasing the temperature from room temperature to 100 °C. Such reflectors on flexible substrates could be used for the retrofitting of existing windows to save energy and visible reflectors in clothing or other aesthetically pleasing applications.

Graphical abstract: Paintable temperature-responsive cholesteric liquid crystal reflectors encapsulated on a single flexible polymer substrate

  • This article is part of the themed collection: Photonics

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
15 apr 2019
Accepted
16 may 2019
First published
29 may 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019,7, 7395-7398

Paintable temperature-responsive cholesteric liquid crystal reflectors encapsulated on a single flexible polymer substrate

H. Khandelwal, E. P. A. van Heeswijk, A. P. H. J. Schenning and M. G. Debije, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 7395 DOI: 10.1039/C9TC02011J

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