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Cholesteric Liquid Crystals: Rationally Designed Dynamic Superstructures Enabled by Photoaligning Cholesteric Liquid Crystals (Advanced Optical Materials 12/2015)
Author(s) -
Ma LingLing,
Li SenSen,
Li WenSong,
Ji Wei,
Luo Bin,
Zheng ZhiGang,
Cai ZhiPing,
Chigrinov Vladimir,
Lu YanQing,
Hu Wei,
Chen LuJian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced optical materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 91
ISSN - 2195-1071
DOI - 10.1002/adom.201570073
Subject(s) - cholesteric liquid crystal , materials science , liquid crystal , chirality (physics) , spiral (railway) , optics , helix (gastropod) , liquid crystalline , optoelectronics , photonics , nanotechnology , physics , mechanical engineering , ecology , chiral symmetry breaking , quantum mechanics , snail , nambu–jona lasinio model , engineering , biology , quark
Helical structures exist universally. Rationally designed cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) superstructures with arrangements of in‐plane helical axes realized by W. Hu, L.‐J. Chen, and co‐workers result in unique fingerprint textures for potential advanced photonic applications. On page 1691, they describe their digital micromirror device‐based photoalignment technique and demonstrate the growth of spiral and wave‐like continuous gratings, producing CLCs with chirality, depth and integrity, just like our universe.