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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Fast Response and Spontaneous Alignment in Liquid Crystals Doped with 12-Hydroxystearic Acid Gelators.

Hui-Chi Lin, Chih-Hung Wang, Jyun-Kai Wang, Sheng-Feng Tsai

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Hui-Chi LinDepartment of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan. huichilin@nfu.edu.tw.
Chih-Hung WangDepartment of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan. power99832@yahoo.com.tw.
Jyun-Kai WangDepartment of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan. bruce830509@gmail.com.
Sheng-Feng TsaiDepartment of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan. gentle0314@hotmail.com.

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Abstract

The spontaneous vertical alignment of liquid crystals (LCs) in gelator (12-hydroxystearic acid)-doped LC cells was studied. Gelator-induced alignment can be used in both positive and negative LC cells. The electro-optical characteristics of the gelator-doped negative LC cell were similar to those of an LC cell that contained a vertically aligned (VA) host. The rise time of the gelator-doped LC cell was two orders of magnitude shorter than that of the VA host LC cell. The experimental results indicate that the gelator-induced vertical alignment of LC molecules occurred not only on the surface of the indium tin oxide (ITO) but also on the homogeneous alignment layer. Various LC alignments (planar, hybrid, multistable hybrid, and vertical alignments) were achieved by modulating the doped gelator concentrations. The multistable characteristic of LCs doped with the gelator is also presented. The alignment by doping with a gelator reduces the manufacturing costs and provides a means of fabricating fast-responding, flexible LC displays using a low-temperature process.

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alignmentfast reponsegelatorliquid crystalmultistable property

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PMID29735937
PMCPMC5978122

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