Cholesteric liquid crystals with a broad light reflection band

M Mitov - Advanced Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The cholesteric‐liquid‐crystalline structure, which concerns the organization of chromatin,
collagen, chitin, or cellulose, is omnipresent in living matter. In technology, it is found in …

Dynamic color in stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystals

TJ White, ME McConney, TJ Bunning - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
ROY G. BIV is the acronym used around the English-speaking world to aid children in the
memorization of the traditional colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue …

Strong CPL of achiral AIE-active dyes induced by supramolecular self-assembly in chiral nematic liquid crystals (AIE-N*-LCs)

X Li, W Hu, Y Wang, Y Quan, Y Cheng - Chemical Communications, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral binaphthyl enantiomers (Guest 1) were doped into commercial nematic liquid crystals
(N-LCs, Host E7) to form chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LCs). The new ternary AIE-N*-LCs …

Asymmetric tunable photonic bandgaps in self‐organized 3D nanostructure of polymer‐stabilized blue phase I modulated by voltage polarity

M Wang, C Zou, J Sun, L Zhang, L Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Electrically responsive photonic crystals represent one of the most promising intelligent
materials for technological applications in optoelectronics. In this research, a polymer …

Tunable circularly polarized luminescence with a high dissymmetry factor emitted from luminogen-bonded and electrically controlled polymer-stabilized cholesteric …

Z Li, R Lan, J Bao, W Hu, M Wang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)-active materials with high dissymmetry factor (g
lum) values show great potential in photonic devices. In this study, electric-field-driven …

Strong aggregation‐induced CPL response promoted by chiral emissive nematic liquid crystals (N*‐LCs)

X Li, Q Li, Y Wang, Y Quan, D Chen… - Chemistry–A European …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we designed a kind of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) chiral fluorescence
emitters (R/S‐BINOL‐CN enantiomers) in the aggregate state. Chiral emissive nematic …

Color-tunable mirrors based on electrically regulated bandwidth broadening in polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals

KM Lee, VP Tondiglia, ME McConney… - Acs …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report on the preparation of color-tunable mirrors based on electrically regulated
bandwidth broadening of the circularly polarized reflection of polymer-stabilized cholesteric …

Recyclable CPL switch regulated by using an applied DC electric field from chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LCs)

X Li, Y Shen, K Liu, Y Quan, Y Cheng - Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Two pairs of D–A type chiral binaphthyl dyes (R/S-M1 and R/S-M2) as CPL emitters were
synthesized and doped into nematic liquid crystals (N-LCs, E7) to form chiral emissive …

Do**-free circularly polarized electroluminescence of AIE-active chiral binaphthyl-based polymers

L Yang, Y Zhang, X Zhang, N Li, Y Quan… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
AIE-active chiral polymer enantiomers (S-/RP) can emit green circularly polarized
electroluminescence (CP-EL) with gEL up to 0.024 without alignment layers and chiral …

A Hydrophilic/Hydrophobic Janus Inverse-Opal Actuator via Gradient Infiltration

D Zhang, J Liu, B Chen, Y Zhao, J Wang, T Ikeda… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Janus/gradient actuating materials have become promising candidates for actuating
devices. The fabrication of functional Janus gradient actuators remains a challenge. This …