Advanced liquid crystal-based switchable optical devices for light protection applications: principles and strategies

R Zhang, Z Zhang, J Han, L Yang, J Li, Z Song… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
With the development of optical technologies, transparent materials that provide protection
from light have received considerable attention from scholars. As important channels for …

[HTML][HTML] Development of polymer-dispersed liquid crystals: From mode innovation to applications

H Zhang, Z Miao, W Shen - Composites Part A: Applied Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLCs), comprised of submicron-sized LC droplets
embedded in a continuous polymer matrix, have been the subject of interest for scientists …

Advancements and applications of liquid crystal/polymer composite films

L Zhou, S Liu, X Miao, P Xie, N Sun, Z Xu… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Liquid crystals (LCs) possess some typical liquid properties, such as fluidity, the inability to
support shear, and the formation and coalescence of droplets, which exhibit optical …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in multicomponent systems: Liquid crystal/nanoparticles/polymer

A Gridyakina, N Kasian, MS Chychłowski… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multicomponent systems based on liquid crystals are of great interest both in the field of
scientific research and in the field of practical application. To date, one of the most studied …

The role of nanomesh fibres loaded with BaTiO3 nanoparticles on the electro-optical performance of PDLC devices

Z Shi, Z He, C Li, Z Miao, D Wang, Y Luan, Y Li… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films were prepared from a blend of
prepolymer, liquid crystal and BaTiO 3 (BTO) nanoparticle-laden nanofibres films by a …

Advances in the metal nanoparticles (MNPs) doped liquid crystals and polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) composites and their applications-a review

F Ahmad, M Luqman, M Jamil - Molecular Crystals and Liquid …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
There is a great interest in doping of different types of nanoparticles (NPs) in the opto-
electronic display devices including liquid crystal displays and polymer dispersed LCs …

Continuously tunable intensity modulators with large switching contrasts using liquid crystal elastomer films that are deposited with terahertz metamaterials

WF Chiang, HM Silalahi, YC Chiang, MC Hsu… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
A liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) film is successfully deposited with a terahertz metamaterial
using thermal evaporation via a programmed electronic shutter and high-efficiency cooling …

Zwitterion-treated liquid crystal composites for low-energy-consumption smart windows and wearable devices

P Yu, Z He, Y Zhao, H Zhang, H Zhang, Z Miao… - Applied Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
As an important type of liquid crystal (LC)-based smart windows for indoor
illumination/privacy protection switching and energy conservation, the LC devices from …

Sensitive detection of doped polymer thin films using terahertz metamaterial based on analog of electromagnetically induced transparency

Y Hu, X Zhou, Q Sun, G Zeng, Y Xiong - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel terahertz (THz) metamaterial (MM)-based sensor for the sensitive
detection of doped polymer thin films. The MM constructed by periodic quasi-ring resonators …