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Electro‐optical Memory of a Nanoengineered Amorphous Blue‐Phase‐III Polymer Scaffold
Author(s) -
Gandhi Sahil Sandesh,
Kim Min Su,
Hwang JeoungYeon,
Chien LiangChy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201603226
Subject(s) - materials science , amorphous solid , liquid crystal , scaffold , polymer , phase (matter) , millisecond , optoelectronics , 3d optical data storage , isotropy , nanotechnology , optics , composite material , crystallography , organic chemistry , biomedical engineering , chemistry , physics , astronomy , medicine
An electro‐optical (EO) memory device is presented, which is based on a 3D nanostructured polymer scaffold of the amorphous blue phase III (BPIII) of cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs), which can impart optical isotropy, optical activity, and sub‐millisecond EO response of BPIII to conventional nematic LCs. This functional scaffold also enables the first experimental observation of the long debated structure of BPIII.