Chiral liquid crystal elastomers advance light modulation

Jiazhe Ma; Zhongqiang Yang

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01549-4

Go to Nature Website

Your Location：

Home >

Browse articles >

Chiral liquid crystal elastomers advance light modulation

News & Views

- Chiral liquid crystal elastomers advance light modulation
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 9, Pages: 1698-1700(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Chemistry, Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  2.Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Author bio：
  
  Zhongqiang Yang (zyang@tsinghua.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01549-4
  CLC：
- Published：30 September 2024，
  
  Published Online：23 August 2024，
- Accepted：
Scan QR Code
Ma, J. Z. & Yang, Z. Q. Chiral liquid crystal elastomers advance light modulation. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 1698-1700 (2024).
DOI：

Ma, J. Z. & Yang, Z. Q. Chiral liquid crystal elastomers advance light modulation. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 1698-1700 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01549-4.

摘要

Abstract

Chiral liquid crystal elastomers

as soft photonic materials

enable dynamic omnidirectional tuning of circularly polarized reflection wavelength and function as an effective medium for full-color circularly polarized luminescence

showing promise for advanced photonic applications.

关键词

Keywords

references

Kim, S. T.&Finkelmann, H. Cholesteric liquid single-crystal elastomers (LSCE) obtained by the anisotropic deswelling method.Macromol. Rapid Commun.22, 429–433 (2001)..

Schlafmann, K. R.&White, T. J. Retention and deformation of the blue phases in liquid crystalline elastomers.Nat. Commun.12, 4916 (2021)..

Zhang, Y. S. et al. Stretchable freestanding films of 3D nanocrystalline blue phase elastomer and their tunable applications.Adv. Opt. Mater.9, 2001427 (2021)..

Sol, J. A. H. P. et al. Anisotropic iridescence and polarization patterns in a direct ink written chiral photonic polymer.Adv. Mater.33, 2103309 (2021)..

Hussain, S.&Park, S. Y. Photonic cholesteric liquid-crystal elastomers with reprogrammable helical pitch and handedness.ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces13, 59275–59287 (2021)..

Chen, X. Y. et al. Bioinspired mechanochromic liquid crystal materials: from fundamentals to functionalities and applications.Adv. Mater.e2403766.https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202403766https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202403766(2024)..

Kizhakidathazhath, R. et al. Facile anisotropic deswelling method for realizing large-area cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers with uniform structural color and broad-range mechanochromic response.Adv. Funct. Mater.30, 1909537 (2020)..

Kim, S. U. et al. Broadband and pixelated camouflage in inflating chiral nematic liquid crystalline elastomers.Nat. Mater.21, 41–46 (2022)..

Nam, S. et al. Omnidirectional color wavelength tuning of stretchable chiral liquid crystal elastomers.Light Sci. Appl.13, 114 (2024)..

He, Y. R. et al. Circularly polarized luminescent self-organized helical superstructures: from materials and stimulus-responsiveness to applications.Aggregate2, e141 (2021)..

Zhang, X. et al. Mechanically tunable circularly polarized luminescence of liquid crystal-templated chiral perovskite quantum dots.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.63, e202404202 (2024)..

Li, S. et al. When quantum dots meet blue phase liquid crystal elastomers: visualized full-color and mechanically-switchable circularly polarized luminescence.Light Sci. Appl.13, 140 (2024)..

Views

Downloads

CSCD

Alert me when the article has been cited

Submit

Tools

Publicity Resources

No data

Related Author

No data

Related Institution

No data

⁰