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Polymer stabilized isotropic phase liquid crystals with large Kerr constant

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Pages 399-406 | Received 12 Jun 2021, Accepted 23 Aug 2021, Published online: 07 Sep 2021
 

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we reported a polymer stabilised isotropic phase liquid crystal (PSILC). The influences of different content of chiral dopant and polymer monomer on PSILC were studied. Adding the proper proportion and total content of polymer monomer TMPTA and C12A into liquid crystal with 1.0 wt.% chiral dopant R5011, and UV photo-polymerisation at the isotropic phase, we obtain the Kerr constant greater than 10 nm/V2, hysteresis less than 2.0% and fast response in PSILC.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [Grant Number 2018YFB0703701], and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Number 61475042].

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