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Oton E, Cigl M, Morawiak P, Mironov S, Bubnov A, Piecek W. All-optical 3D blue phase photonic crystal switch with photosensitive dopants. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9910. [PMID: 38689032 PMCID: PMC11061285 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60667-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2024] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
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Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals (LC) have lately become the focus of extensive research due to their peculiar properties and structure. BPs exhibit a highly organized 3D structure with a lattice period in the hundreds of nm. Owing to such structure, BPs are regarded as 3D photonic crystals. The unique properties of this complex LC phase are achieved by the self-assembly of the LC molecules into periodic cubic structures, producing bright selective Bragg reflections. Novel applications involving 3D photonic crystals would certainly benefit from enhanced ground-breaking functionalities. However, the use of BPs as 3D has been traditionally curtailed by the BP crystals trend to grow as random polycrystals, making it difficult to develop practical BP-based photonic devices. The possibility of generating mm-sized BP monocrystals was recently demonstrated. However, besides increasing the scarce number of 3D photonic structural materials, their applications as 3D photonic crystals do not show apparent advantages over other solid materials or metamaterials. Having a tunable BP monocrystal, where crystals could be switched, modulating simultaneously some of their properties as 3D photonic crystals, they would constitute a new family of materials with superior performance to other existing materials, opening up a plethora of new applications. In this work, an all-optical switchable 3D photonic crystal based on BPs doped with tailored photoactive molecules is demonstrated. Two switching modes have been achieved, one where the BP reversibly transitions between two BP phases, BPI and BPII, (two different cubic crystal systems) while maintaining the monocrystallinity of the whole system. The second mode, again reversible, switches between BPI and isotropic state. None of these modes are related to the regular thermal transitions between LC phases; switching is triggered by light pulses of different wavelengths. This all-optical approach allows for a seamless fast remotely controlled optical switch between two 3D photonic crystals in different cubic crystal systems and between a photonic crystal and an isotropic matrix. Applications of switchable BPs for adaptive optics systems or photonic integrated circuits would make great advances using 3D photonic crystal switches. All-optical photonic systems such as these hold great promise for the development of tunable and efficient photonic devices such as dynamic optical filters and sensors, as they enable light-driven modulation and sensing applications with unprecedented versatility.
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- Eva Oton
- Faculty of New Technologies and Chemistry, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of New Technologies and Chemistry, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of New Technologies and Chemistry, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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Zhang R, Ma H, Li X, Wang B, Li C, Liao W, Li Y, Han L. The simultaneous control over the alternating sequence and the inner-core position of the mesogenic segments in side-chain liquid crystal polymers. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Boychuk A, Shibaev V, Cigl M, Pomeisl K, Hamplová V, Pociecha D, Bubnov A, Bobrovsky A. Photo-orientation Processes in Liquid Crystalline Polymethacrylates with Side Azobenzene Groups Having Lateral Methyl Substituents. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Artem Boychuk
- Department of Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 1999/2 Na Slovance, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 1999/2 Na Slovance, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 1999/2 Na Slovance, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 101 ul. Zwirki i Wigury, Warsaw 02-089, Poland
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 1999/2 Na Slovance, Prague 8 182 21, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Bubnov A, Cigl M, Penkov D, Otruba M, Pociecha D, Chen HH, Hamplová V. Design and Self-Assembling Behaviour of Calamitic Reactive Mesogens with Lateral Methyl and Methoxy Substituents and Vinyl Terminal Group. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:polym13132156. [PMID: 34208990 PMCID: PMC8271372 DOI: 10.3390/polym13132156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2021] [Revised: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Smart self-organising systems attract considerable attention in the scientific community. In order to control and stabilise the liquid crystalline behaviour, and hence the self-organisation, the polymerisation process can be effectively used. Mesogenic units incorporated into the backbones as functional side chains of weakly cross-linked macromolecules can become orientationally ordered. Several new calamitic reactive mesogens possessing the vinyl terminal group with varying flexible chain lengths and with/without lateral substitution by the methyl (methoxy) groups have been designed and studied. Depending on the molecular structure, namely, the type and position of the lateral substituents, the resulting materials form the nematic, the orthogonal SmA and the tilted SmC phases in a reasonably broad temperature range, and the structure of the mesophases was confirmed by X-ray diffraction experiments. The main objective of this work is to contribute to better understanding of the molecular structure-mesomorphic property relationship for new functional reactive mesogens, aiming at further design of smart self-assembling macromolecular materials for novel sensor systems.
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- Alexej Bubnov
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (M.C.); (V.H.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +420-266-052-134
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (M.C.); (V.H.)
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- Gymnázium Christiana Dopplera, Zborovská 621/45, 150 00 Prague, Czech Republic; (D.P.); (M.O.)
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- Gymnázium Christiana Dopplera, Zborovská 621/45, 150 00 Prague, Czech Republic; (D.P.); (M.O.)
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, ul. Zwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland;
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- Institute of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Research and Development Center of Smart Textile Technology, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan;
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (M.C.); (V.H.)
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Self-assembling behaviour of chiral calamitic monoacrylates targeted for polymer stabilisation of polar smectic phases in chiral liquid crystals. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.115723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Bubnov A, Bobrovsky A, Rychetský I, Fekete L, Hamplová V. Self-Assembling Behavior of Smart Nanocomposite System: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Confined by Stretched Porous Polyethylene Film. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 10:E1498. [PMID: 32751727 PMCID: PMC7466609 DOI: 10.3390/nano10081498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The control and prediction of soft systems exhibiting self-organization behavior can be realized by different means but still remains a highlighted task. Novel advanced nanocomposite system has been designed by filling of a stretched porous polyethylene (PE) film with pore dimensions of hundreds of nanometers by chiral ferroelectric liquid crystalline (LC) compound possessing polar self-assembling behavior. Lactic acid derivative exhibiting the paraelectric orthogonal smectic A* and the ferroelectric tilted smectic C* phases over a broad temperature range is used as a self-assembling compound. The morphology of nanocomposite film has been checked by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). The designed nanocomposite has been studied by polarizing optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), small and wide-angle X-ray scattering and broadband dielectric spectroscopy. The effect of a porous PE confinement on self-assembling, structural, and dielectric behavior of the chiral LC compound has been established and discussed. While the mesomorphic and structural properties of the nanocomposite are found not to be much influenced in comparison to that of a pure LC compound, the polar properties have been toughly suppressed by the specific confinement. Nevertheless, the electro-optic switching was clearly observed under applied electric field of low frequency (210 V, 19 Hz). The dielectric spectroscopy and X-ray results reveal that the helical structure of the ferroelectric liquid crystal inside the PE matrix is completely unwound, and the molecules are aligned along stretching direction. Obtained results demonstrate possibilities of using stretched porous polyolefins as promising matrices for the design of new nanocomposites.
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- Alexej Bubnov
- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (I.R.); (L.F.); (V.H.)
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, 119992 Moscow, Russia;
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (I.R.); (L.F.); (V.H.)
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (I.R.); (L.F.); (V.H.)
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- Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic; (I.R.); (L.F.); (V.H.)
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The effect of the length of terminal n-alkyl carboxylate chain on self-assembling and photosensitive properties of chiral lactic acid derivatives. J Mol Liq 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mechanical Manipulation of Diffractive Properties of Optical Holographic Gratings from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/app8081330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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An appealing property of optical diffractive structures from elastomeric materials is a possibility to regulate their optical patterns and consequently also their diffractive features with mechanical straining. We investigated the effect of strain on diffraction characteristics of holographic gratings recorded in a monodomain side-chain liquid crystalline elastomer. The strain was imposed either parallel or perpendicular to the initial alignment direction of the material. At temperatures far below the nematic–paranematic phase transition, straining along the initial alignment affects mainly the diffraction pattern, while the diffraction efficiency remains almost constant. In contrast, at temperatures close to the nematic–paranematic phase transition, the diffraction efficiency is also significantly affected. Straining in the direction perpendicular to the initial alignment strongly and diversely influences both the diffraction pattern and the diffraction efficiency. The difference between the two cases is attributed to shear–stripe domains, which form only during straining perpendicular to the initial alignment and cause optical diffraction that competes with the diffraction from the holographic grating structure.
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Zhang L, Yao W, Gao Y, Zhang C, Yang H. Polysiloxane-Based Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymers: From Synthesis to Structure⁻Phase Transition Behavior Relationships. Polymers (Basel) 2018; 10:E794. [PMID: 30960718 PMCID: PMC6403854 DOI: 10.3390/polym10070794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Organosilicon polymer materials play an important role in certain applications due to characteristics of much lower glass transition temperatures (Tg), viscosities, surface energy, as well as good mechanical, thermal stabilities, and insulation performance stemming from the higher bond energy and the larger bond angles of the adjacent silicon-oxygen bond. This critical review highlights developments in the synthesis, structure, and phase transition behaviors of polysiloxane-based side chain liquid crystal polymers (PSCLCPs) of linear and cyclic polysiloxanes containing homopolymers and copolymers. Detailed synthetic strategies are elaborated, and the relationship between molecular structures and liquid crystalline phase transition behaviors is systematically discussed, providing theoretical guidance on the molecular design of the materials.
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- Lanying Zhang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Vojtylová TJ, Cigl M, Tomášková P, Hamplová V, Sýkora D. Influence of photoinduced isomerization on the chiral separation of novel liquid crystalline materials with a diazene moiety. J Sep Sci 2018; 41:3034-3041. [DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201800301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 05/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Physics; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Physics; Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Physics; Prague Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Chemical Engineering; Department of Analytical Chemistry; University of Chemistry and Technology Prague; Prague Czech Republic
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Bobrovsky A, Shibaev V, Piryazev A, Anokhin DV, Ivanov DA, Sinitsyna O, Hamplova V, Kaspar M, Bubnov A. Photo-Orientation Phenomena in Photochromic Liquid Crystalline Azobenzene-Containing Polymethacrylates with Different Spacer Length. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201700127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Alexey Bobrovsky
- Faculty of Chemistry; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Faculty of Chemistry; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Faculty of Fundamental Physical and Chemical Engineering; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Faculty of Fundamental Physical and Chemical Engineering; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS; Semenov Prospect 1 Chernogolovka Moscow region 142432 Russia
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- Faculty of Fundamental Physical and Chemical Engineering; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
- Institut de Sciences des Matériaux de Mulhouse; CNRS UMR 7361, Jean Starcky 15 F-68057 Mulhouse France
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- Faculty of Chemistry; Moscow State University; Leninskie gory Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Institute of Physics; The Czech Academy of Sciences; 182 21 Prague 8 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics; The Czech Academy of Sciences; 182 21 Prague 8 Czech Republic
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- Institute of Physics; The Czech Academy of Sciences; 182 21 Prague 8 Czech Republic
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He XZ, Gao YF, Zheng JJ, Li XY, Meng FB, Hu JS. Chiral photosensitive side-chain liquid crystalline polymers—synthesis and characterization. Colloid Polym Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00396-016-3939-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Ryabchun A, Raguzin I, Stumpe J, Shibaev V, Bobrovsky A. Cholesteric Polymer Scaffolds Filled with Azobenzene-Containing Nematic Mixture with Phototunable Optical Properties. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:27227-27235. [PMID: 27633069 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b09642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The past two decades witnessed tremendous progress in the field of creation of different types of responsive materials. Cholesteric polymer networks present a very promising class of smart materials due to the combination of the unique optical properties of cholesteric mesophase and high mechanical properties of polymer networks. In the present work we demonstrate the possibility of fast and reversible photocontrol of the optical properties of cholesteric polymer networks. Several cholesteric photopolymerizable mixtures are prepared, and porous cholesteric network films with different helix pitches are produced by polymerization of these mixtures. An effective and simple method of the introduction of photochromic azobenzene-containing nematic mixture capable of isothermal photoinducing the nematic-isotropic phase transition into the porous polymer matrix is developed. It is found that cross-linking density and degree of polymer network filling with a photochromic nematic mixture strongly influence the photo-optical behavior of the obtained composite films. In particular, the densely cross-linked films are characterized by a decrease in selective light reflection bandwidth, whereas weakly cross-linked systems display two processes: the shift of selective light reflection peak and decrease of its width. It is noteworthy that the obtained cholesteric materials are shown to be very promising for the variety applications in optoelectronics and photonics.
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- Alexander Ryabchun
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research , Geiselbergstrasse 69, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University , Lenin Hills 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research , Hohe Strasse 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- University of Potsdam , Am Mühlenberg 11, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University , Lenin Hills 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Chemistry Department, Moscow State University , Lenin Hills 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Bobrovsky A, Shibaev V, Cigl M, Hamplová V, Pociecha D, Bubnov A. Azobenzene-containing LC polymethacrylates highly photosensitive in broad spectral range. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/pola.28181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alexey Bobrovsky
- Faculty of Chemistry; Moscow State University; Leninskie Gory Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Faculty of Chemistry; Moscow State University; Leninskie Gory Moscow 119991 Russia
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- Chemistry department, Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences; Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague 8 Czech Republic
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- Chemistry department, Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences; Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague 8 Czech Republic
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- Laboratory of Dielectrics and Magnetics, Chemistry Department; Warsaw University; Al. Zwirki I Wigury 101 Warsaw 02-089 Poland
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- Chemistry department, Institute of Physics, The Czech Academy of Sciences; Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21 Prague 8 Czech Republic
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Bubnov A, Iwan A, Cigl M, Boharewicz B, Tazbir I, Wójcik K, Sikora A, Hamplová V. Photosensitive self-assembling materials as functional dopants for organic photovoltaic cells. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra23137j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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New photosensitive liquid crystalline compounds with a specific molecular structure have been designed in order to use them as functional dopants for organic photovoltaic devices.
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- Alexej Bubnov
- Institute of Physics
- The Czech Academy of Sciences
- 182 21 Prague
- Czech Republic
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- Electrotechnical Institute
- Division of Electrotechnology and Materials Science
- 50-369 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Institute of Physics
- The Czech Academy of Sciences
- 182 21 Prague
- Czech Republic
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- Electrotechnical Institute
- Division of Electrotechnology and Materials Science
- 50-369 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Electrotechnical Institute
- Division of Electrotechnology and Materials Science
- 50-369 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Electrotechnical Institute
- Division of Electrotechnology and Materials Science
- 50-369 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Electrotechnical Institute
- Division of Electrotechnology and Materials Science
- 50-369 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Institute of Physics
- The Czech Academy of Sciences
- 182 21 Prague
- Czech Republic
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Lisinetskii V, Ryabchun A, Bobrovsky A, Schrader S. Photochromic Composite for Random Lasing Based on Porous Polypropylene Infiltrated with Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Crystalline Mixture. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:26595-602. [PMID: 26565667 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We report on a new low-cost and easily fabricated type of liquid crystalline polymer composites demonstrating low threshold random lasing, which can be used as a cheap and simple mirror-less laser source. The composite is based on mass-producible commercially available porous polypropylene (Celgard 2500) infiltrated with low-molar-mass liquid crystal material doped with Rhodamine 800 laser dye. Excitation with red nanosecond laser (630 nm) induces random lasing with the emission peak in NIR spectral range (804 nm) with noticeable degree of linear polarization. The possibility to control the lasing threshold and polarization of the output light with UV radiation through photoswitching of liquid crystal phase from nematic to isotropic is demonstrated. The photocontrollable phase switching is achieved by reversible E/Z isomerization of the azobenzene dopant introduced to the nematic host matrix. It is revealed that the isotropic state of liquid crystal provides more efficient random lasing with lower threshold due to significant scattering of the ordinary wave.
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- Victor Lisinetskii
- Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau , Hochschulring 1, 15745 Wildau, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research , Geiselbergstr. 69, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University , Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Moscow State University , Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau , Hochschulring 1, 15745 Wildau, Germany
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Liu D, Yuan Q, Ling Y, Tang H. Synthesis and Properties of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polypeptides Bearing Various Alkyl Spacers and Oligo-Ethylene-Glycol Tails. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- Dan Liu
- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province; Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province; College of Chemistry; Xiangtan University; Xiangtan Hunan 411105 China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province; Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province; College of Chemistry; Xiangtan University; Xiangtan Hunan 411105 China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province; Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province; College of Chemistry; Xiangtan University; Xiangtan Hunan 411105 China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province; Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges and Universities of Hunan Province; College of Chemistry; Xiangtan University; Xiangtan Hunan 411105 China
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Bin N, Yongbin L, Yujie L, Sheng C, Hailiang Z. Influence of main-chain and molecular weight on the phase behaviors of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers without the spacer. NEW J CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5nj01315a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The main-chain and molecular weight affects the clearing temperature of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers based on biphenyl mesogen without the spacer.
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- Ni Bin
- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges
- Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges
- Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges
- Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges
- Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
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- Key Laboratory of Polymeric Materials and Application Technology of Hunan Province
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Materials of Colleges
- Universities of Hunan Province
- College of Chemistry
- Xiangtan University
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Domenici V, Milavec J, Bubnov A, Pociecha D, Zupančič B, Rešetič A, Hamplová V, Gorecka E, Zalar B. Effect of co-monomers' relative concentration on self-assembling behaviour of side-chain liquid crystalline elastomers. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra07454h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
A new series of liquid single crystal elastomers having a nematic–SmA and a direct isotropic–SmA phase transition.
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Affiliation(s)
- Valentina Domenici
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale
- Università degli studi di Pisa
- 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Solid State Physics
- Jožef Stefan Institute
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
| | - Alexej Bubnov
- Institute of Physics
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
| | - Damian Pociecha
- University of Warsaw
- Department of Chemistry
- 02-089 Warszawa, Poland
| | - Blaž Zupančič
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Jožef Stefan Institute
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
| | - Andraž Rešetič
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Jožef Stefan Institute
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
| | - Věra Hamplová
- Institute of Physics
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
| | - Ewa Gorecka
- University of Warsaw
- Department of Chemistry
- 02-089 Warszawa, Poland
| | - Boštjan Zalar
- Department of Solid State Physics
- Jožef Stefan Institute
- Ljubljana, Slovenia
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