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Back Cover: Reconfigurable Photonic Capsules Containing Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with Planar Alignment (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 50/2015)
Author(s) -
Lee Sang Seok,
Kim Su Kyung,
Won Jong Chan,
Kim Yun Ho,
Kim ShinHyun
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201509872
Subject(s) - planar , materials science , cholesteric liquid crystal , liquid crystal , microfluidics , photonics , photonic crystal , shell (structure) , reflection (computer programming) , membrane , optoelectronics , nanotechnology , layer (electronics) , optics , chemistry , composite material , physics , computer science , biochemistry , programming language , computer graphics (images)
Reconfigurable photonic microcapsules were obtained through the microfluidic encapsulation of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) with a double layer. In their Communication on page 15266 ff., S.‐H. Kim and co‐workers show that the inner liquid shell induces the CLCs to adopt a planar alignment, while the microcapsules are stabilized by an outer elastic membrane. The CLC microcapsules show striking reflection colors, and their shape and optical properties can be easily reconfigured.