Organic liquid-crystal devices based on ionic conductors

  • Can Hui Yang
  • , Shuang Zhou
  • , Samuel Shian
  • , David R. Clarke
  • , Zhigang Suo

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Abstract

A fully organic liquid-crystal device is enabled by ionic conductors. The device uses a liquid crystal as a voltage-driven light shutter, an elastomer as a transparent dielectric, and a hydrogel as a transparent conductor. A voltage switches the device from an opaque state to a transparent state without electrolyzing the hydrogel. The device maintains its electrooptical performance under a biaxial stretch of 1.5.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1102-1109
Number of pages8
JournalMaterials Horizons
Volume4
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2017
Externally publishedYes

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