Reflection characteristics of cholesteric liquid crystal microcapsules with different geometries

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 452-458

  Lv, Kui ^a   Liu, Dongzhi ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Tian, Qixiang ^a   Zhou, Xueqin ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cholesteric liquid crystals; Geometry; Microcapsules; Modeling; Selective reflection; Solvent evaporation

Indexed keywords

COLOR CHANGING; DEGREE OF ORDERING; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; MICROCAPSULES; REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS; REFLECTION PROPERTIES; REFLECTION SPECTRA; SELECTIVE REFLECTION; SOLVENT EVAPORATION;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COLOR; ESTERS; EVAPORATION; GEOMETRY; MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ENCAPSULATION;

EID: 84862799620     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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