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Carbon Nanotubes: Super‐Fast Switching of Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystals on 2D Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Networks (Adv. Funct. Mater. 20/2011)
Author(s) -
Lee WonKyu,
Choi Yeon Sik,
Kang YoungGu,
Sung Jinwoo,
Seo DaeShik,
Park Cheolmin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201190088
Subject(s) - materials science , carbon nanotube , liquid crystal , nanocomposite , polyimide , layer (electronics) , conjugated system , nanotechnology , molecule , chemical engineering , composite material , optoelectronics , polymer , organic chemistry , chemistry , engineering
A high‐performance liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer of ultrathin single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is developed along with a conjugated block copolymer nanocomposite that is solution‐processible for con‐ventional twisted nematic (TN) LC cells. On page 3843 , Dae‐Shik Seo, Cheolmin Park, and co‐workers show that a LC cell prepared on this extremely trans‐parent nanocomposite gave rise to superfast switching of the TN LC molecules, four times faster than that on a commercial polyimide layer.