High-Contrast and Fast Photorheological Switching of a Twist-Bend Nematic Liquid Crystal

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October 31st, 2019

DOI :

10.3791/60433-v

October 31st, 2019

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Satoshi Aya¹, Péter Salamon², Daniel A. Paterson³, John M. D. Storey³, Corrie T. Imrie³, Fumito Araoka¹, Antal Jákli⁴, Ágnes Buka²

¹RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), ²Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ³Department of Chemistry, School of Natural and Computing Sciences, University of Aberdeen, ⁴Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

Summary

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Photorheological Switching

Liquid Crystals

Viscoelastic Properties

Rheological Properties

Photorheological Materials

Isotropic Liquid Nematic Phase

Capillary Force

Texture Characterization

Photoreactive Adhesive

Mercury Vapor Lamp

Chapters in this video

0:05

Title

0:33

Rubbed Surface Preparation

1:43

Liquid Crystal (LC) Cell Preparation

2:55

Polarizing Optical Microscopy & Photorheological Measurement

4:22

Results: Representative Chemical, Rheological, & Photodynamic Characteristics of a Liquid Crystal Nonsymmetric Dimer

5:46

Conclusion

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