Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 37, Issue 12, 1507(2022)
Recent progress in oblique heliconical cholesteric liquid crystal materials
Dynamic control of selective reflection of chiral liquid crystals (LCs) through the external field is one of the important research directions. In recent years, a special nematic phase, twist-bend nematic (Ntb), has been discovered, and a new type of oblique heliconical cholesteric phase (ChOH) can be formed by mixing Ntb mixture with chiral molecules under electric field induction. Different from the electric-field modulation performance of ordinary cholesteric phase, the pitch of ChOH decreases in a certain range with increasing electric field intensity, thus realizing the wide range switching of selective reflection from ultraviolet to near infrared spectra. This phenomenon caused the wide attention of the researchers, and it also makes the ChOH LCs material have great potential in reflective display, smart windows, tunable filters, holograms and other applications. On the basis of a brief introduction of the characteristics of ChOH LCs, this review paper focuses on the recent research progress of field-controlled ChOH LCs and polymer/ChOH LCs composites, and prospects their future development trends.
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Xiang-hui TIAN, Hao SUN, Shuang-shuang ZENG, Hai-yi LIN, Jin-bao GUO. Recent progress in oblique heliconical cholesteric liquid crystal materials[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2022, 37(12): 1507
Category: Research Articles
Received: Jul. 22, 2022
Accepted: --
Published Online: Nov. 30, 2022
The Author Email: Jin-bao GUO (guojb@mail.buct.edu.cn)