[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the polymer dispersed liquid crystal composite and its applications

MH Saeed, S Zhang, Y Cao, L Zhou, J Hu… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs) have kindled a spark of interest because of their
unique characteristic of electrically controlled switching. However, some issues including …

Silicon nanostructure-doped polymer/nematic liquid crystal composites for low voltage-driven smart windows

Z He, P Yu, H Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Zhu, Z Guo… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, two silicon nanostructures were doped into polymer/nematic liquid crystal
composites to regulate the electric-optical performance. Commercial SiO 2 nanoparticles …

Combined effect of hydroxylated and fluorinated acrylate monomers on improving the electro-optical and mechanical performances of PDLC-films

J Hu, W Hu, S Zhang, C Sun, R Lan, Y Cao, Y Ren… - Liquid …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, we prepared polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films with good
mechanical properties, high contrast ratio (CR), and low driving voltage (Vdr). These PDLC …

ATO and Cs0· 33WO3 loaded bilayer nanofiber membrane doped polymer dispersed liquid crystals for infrared shielding

Z Zhong, Y Zhao, Z He, H Gao, Z Du, H Zhang… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Liquid crystals possess a wide range of applications in modulating infrared (IR) light and
have drawn great interest especially in near-infrared shielding and passive radiative …

Steric group-based polymer dispersed liquid crystal composite films with high contrast ratio, low driving voltage and small hysteresis

M Yu, T Wang, J Xu, W Hu, Y Gao, C Zou… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The unique phase-separated microstructure has endowed polymer dispersed liquid crystals
(PDLCs) with outstanding electro-optical performances. However, their applications are …

Role of hydroxy group in the electro-optical properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

M Yu, J Xu, L Luo, L Zhang, Y Gao, C Zou, Q Wang… - Crystals, 2023 - mdpi.com
In this work, hydroxylated compounds are applied to prepare polymer-dispersed liquid
crystal (PDLC) films and the role of the hydroxy group is studied in detail by comparing the …

PDLC with controllable microstructure using wavelength-selective two-stage polymerization

H Lu, P Huang, T Wu, C Chen, J Shi, M Xu, L Qiu… - Polymer, 2022 - Elsevier
A wavelength-selective, two-stage polymerization of acrylate-thiol for the formation of
polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films is developed. Via this method, the PDLC with …

Molecular engineering controlled electric-optical performance of polymer dispersed liquid crystals

C Zhang, P Yu, J Zhao, M Liang, Z He, Z Miao - Liquid Crystals, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this work, the methods of do** different fluorine-containing monomers and fluorine-
containing nanoparticles into the mixture were adopted to boost the electro-optical …

The relationship between crosslinker, liquid crystal, and magnetic nanomaterial do** on electro-optical properties of PDLC

Z Liang, Y Zhao, H Gao, D Wang, Z Miao, H Cao… - Liquid …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) is a striking material that has a great role in
optoelectronic display devices. In this paper, PDLC films were prepared by the …

Heteroatom-Terminated Acrylate-Based Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Composite Films with High Contrast Ratio and Low Driving Voltage

C Chen, L Zhang, F Zhou, X He, Z Zhang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A series of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films were prepared by using acrylate
monomers containing heteroatom-terminated groups. The microscopic morphology and …