Polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals

Ling Wang; Wanli He; Qian Wang; Meina Yu; Xia Xiao; Yang Zhang; Mujtaba Ellahi; Dongyu Zhao; Huai Yang; Lin Guo

doi:10.1039/C3TC31253D

Polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals†

Ling Wang,^a Wanli He,^b Qian Wang,^c Meina Yu,^a Xia Xiao,^d Yang Zhang,^b Mujtaba Ellahi,^b Dongyu Zhao,^c Huai Yang*^a and Lin Guo*^c

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^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China
E-mail: yanghuai@coe.pku.edu.cn

^b School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, P.R. China

^c School of Chemistry and Environment Science, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing 100191, P.R. China
E-mail: guolin@buaa.edu.cn

^d AU Optronics Trade (Shanghai) Corporation, Suzhou 215021, P.R. China

Abstract

Electro-optical switching with low voltage, no hysteresis and fast response speed is achieved in polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals with a wide temperature range, and it is found that the benefits from the combined method are more than from the simple addition of polymer stabilization and nanoparticle dispersion.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals†

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