ArticleNature materials2020
Reconfiguration of three-dimensional liquid-crystalline photonic crystals by electrostriction.
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- Direct simulation and machine learning structure identification unravel soft martensitic transformation and twinning dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Plasma photonic crystal 'kaleidoscope' with flexible control of topology and electromagnetism.Frontiers of optoelectronics · 2024Article
- Directed crystalline symmetry transformation of blue-phase liquid crystals by reverse electrostriction.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Functional soft materials from blue phase liquid crystals.Science advances · 2023Review
- Achiral Nanoparticle-Enhanced Chiral Twist and Thermal Stability of Blue Phase Liquid Crystals.ACS nano · 2022Article
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- Effect of Amorphous Crosslinker on Phase Behavior and Electro-Optic Response of Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crystals.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Experimental Advances in Nanoparticle-Driven Stabilization of Liquid-Crystalline Blue Phases and Twist-Grain Boundary Phases.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Retention and deformation of the blue phases in liquid crystalline elastomers.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Diffusionless transformation of soft cubic superstructure from amorphous to simple cubic and body-centered cubic phases.Nature communications · 2021Article
- 3D Chiral Photonic Nanostructures Based on Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals.Small science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Natural self-assembled three-dimensional photonic crystals such as blue-phase liquid crystals typically assume cubic lattice structures. Nonetheless, blue-phase liquid crystals with distinct crystal symmetries and thus band structures will be advantageous for optical applications. Here we use repetitive electrical pulses to reconfigure blue-phase liquid crystals into stable orthorhombic and tetragonal lattices. This approach, termed repetitively applied field, allows the system to relax between each pulse, gradually transforming the initial cubic lattice into various intermediate metastable states until a stable non-cubic crystal is achieved. We show that this technique is suitable for engineering non-cubic lattices with tailored photonic bandgaps, associated dispersion and band structure across the entire visible spectrum in blue-phase liquid crystals with distinct composition and initial crystal orientation. These field-free blue-phase liquid crystals exhibit large electro-optic responses and can be polymer-stabilized to have a wide operating temperature range and submillisecond response speed, which are promising properties for information display, electro-optics, nonlinear optics, microlasers and biosensing applications.
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