Shape‐Designable Polyhedral Liquid Marbles/Plasticines Stabilized with Polymer Plates

Electrically switched color with polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals.

We report an electrical-field switched color device using a polymer-stabilized blue-phase (PSBP) liquid crystal in which the Bragg-reflected color of the blue phase (BP) can be switched to reflect a second color. The phase-separated three-dimensional polymer network transcribes the cubic structure of a BP liquid crystal and restrains the deformation of cubic lattice by the external electric fie...

Polymer-Stabilized Diffraction Gratings from Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Switchable Fresnel lens using polymer-stabilized liquid crystals.

A switchable Fresnel zone plate lens is demonstrated using a polymer-stabilized liquid crystal. The fabrication process is relatively simple and the device can be operated below 10 volts with fast response time. Such a device works well for a linearly polarized light.

Emerging Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Display

Polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals hold great potential for future display applications. Some technical challenges, such as blue-phase temperature range, operation voltage, hysteresis, and voltage holding ratio remain to be overcome before widespread commercialization can be realized. In this paper, we review recent advances in this emerging technology.

Extended Kerr effect of polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystals

Electric-field-induced birefringence of a polymer-stabilized blue-phase liquid crystal BPLC is investigated. In the low field region, conventional Kerr effect holds. As the electric field increases, the induced birefringence gradually saturates and deviates from Kerr effect. An exponential convergence model, called extended Kerr effect, is proposed to fit the experimental data. Good agreement b...