Preparation and thermo-optical characteristics of a smart polymer-stabilized liquid crystal thin film based on smectic A-chiral nematic phase transition

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Jian ^a   Wang, Huihui ^a   Wang, Ling ^b   Cao, Hui ^a   Xie, Hui ^c   Luo, Xueyao ^d   Xiao, Jiumei ^a   Ding, Hangjun ^a   Yang, Zhou ^a   Yang, Huai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUIZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Shenzhen School of the Affiliated High School of Renmin University of China   (China)

Author keywords

Chiral nematic phase; Parallel polymer network; Polymer stabilized liquid crystal; Smart materials; Smectic A phase; Thermo optical characteristics

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; IRRADIATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MOLECULES; MONOMERS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; THIN FILMS;

CHIRAL NEMATIC PHASE; PARALLEL POLYMERS; POLYMER STABILIZED LIQUID CRYSTALS; SMECTIC A PHASE; THERMO-OPTICAL;

FILM PREPARATION;

EID: 84911429296     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/12/125038     Document Type: Article

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