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Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 40, Issue 1, 111(2025)

Endowing circularly polarized luminescence in liquid crystal composites for desired applications

Mingjiang ZHANG^1,2, Ruiqi SU^1,2、#, and Taotao ZHUANG^1,2、*

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¹Department of Chemistry， University of Science and Technology of China， Hefei 230026， China

²Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry， Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale， Hefei 230026， China

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Category: Liquid Crystal luminescence Materials

Received: Aug. 12, 2024

Accepted: --

Published Online: Mar. 31, 2025

The Author Email: Taotao ZHUANG (tzhuang@ustc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2024-0229

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