Light-directing omnidirectional circularly polarized reflection from liquid-crystal droplets

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2160-2164

  Fan, Jing ^a   Li, Yannian ^b   Bisoyi, Hari Krishna ^b   Zola, Rafael S ^c   Yang, Deng Ke ^b   Bunning, Timothy J ^d   Weitz, David A ^a   Li, Quan ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color; Liquid crystal droplets; Microfluidics; Omnidirectional selective reflection; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COLOR; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MICROFLUIDICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TRACKING (POSITION);

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; HELICAL TWISTING POWER; LIQUID CRYSTAL MOLECULES; LIQUID-CRYSTAL DROPLETS; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNIQUES; MONODISPERSE DROPLETS; SELECTIVE REFLECTION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

DROPS;

EID: 84922454335     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201410788     Document Type: Article

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