Biomimetic reflectors fabricated using self-organising, self-aligning liquid crystal polymers

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 520-523

  Matranga, Ariosto ^a   Baig, Sarwat ^a   Boland, Jessica ^a   Newton, Christopher ^a   Taphouse, Timothy ^a   Wells, Gary ^a   Kitson, Stephen ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

biomimetic materials; cholesteric; liquid crystal polymers; liquid crystals; reflectors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; ENGINEERED MATERIALS; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ALIGN; SELF-ALIGNING; SELF-ORGANISING;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COATINGS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFLECTION;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84872722457     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203182     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. A. E. Seago, P. Brady, J. Vigneron, T. D. Schultz, J. R.Soc. Interface 2009, 6, S165.
2. th edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
3. S. Caveney, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 1971, 178, 205.
4. S. Chao, W. Wang, C. Lee, Appl. Opt. 2001, 40, 2177.
5. J. A. Radford, T. Alfrey, W. J. Schrenk, Polym. Eng. Sci. 1973, 13, 216.
6. P. G. de Gennes, J. Prost, The Physics of Liquid Crystals, Clarendon, Oxford, 1993.
7. S.-T. Wu, D.-K. Yang, Reflective Liquid Crystal Displays, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester 2001.
8. D. M. Markow, Appl. Opt. 1980, 19, 1274.
9. H. Thiem, P. Strohriegl, M. Shkunov, I. McCulloch, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2005, 206, 2153.
10. J. Cognard, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. Suppl. Ser. 1982, 1, 1.
11. S. Kitson, A. Geisow, J. Rudin, T. Taphouse, Optics Express 2011, 19, 15404.
12. J. Lub, P. Van de Witte, C. Doornkamp, J. P. A. Vogels, R. T. Wegh, Adv. Mater. 2003, 15, 1420.
13. D. W. Berreman, Opt. Soc. Am. 1972, 62, 502.