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Making Smectic Defect Patterns Electrically Reversible and Dynamically Tunable Using In Situ Polymer‐Templated Nematic Liquid Crystals
Author(s) -
Boniello Giuseppe,
Vilchez Victoria,
Garre Emmanuel,
Mondiot Frédéric
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.202170044
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , conic section , materials science , voltage , in situ , polymer , polymerization , condensed matter physics , optics , optoelectronics , composite material , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics , meteorology
Back Cover : In article number 2100087 by Frédéric Mondiot and co‐workers, in situ polymerization of voltage irreversible smectic A defect patterns such as focal conic domains is utilized to transfer them into more electrically responsive nematic liquid crystals. Using this approach, linear arrays of elliptic‐hyperbolic focal conic domains with uncovered hiding properties can then reversibly switch back and forth with low voltages between textures ranging from totally hiding to transparent states.