Cellulose-Based Reflective Liquid Crystal Films as Optical Filters and Solar Gain Regulators

ACS Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 2468-2477

  De La Cruz, Joshua A ^a   Liu, Qingkun ^b   Senyuk, Bohdan ^b   Frazier, Allister W ^a   Peddireddy, Karthik ^b   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

biomaterials; chiral nematic; circular polarizer; liquid crystal; photonic crystal; tunable reflection

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE FILMS; CRYSTAL FILTERS; DICHROISM; GAIN CONTROL; INFRARED DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID FILMS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLASTIC FILMS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF ASSEMBLY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROMETRIES; OPTICALLY ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; POLARIZED OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

OPTICAL FILMS;

CELLULOSE; DICHROISM; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PLASTIC FILMS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVITY;

EID: 85046263860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00289     Document Type: Article

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