Asymmetric Dimers of Chiral Azobenzene Dopants Exhibiting Unusual Helical Twisting Power upon Photoswitching in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 4918-4926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuna Kim ◽  
Nobuyuki Tamaoki
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (15) ◽  
pp. 2181-2189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengyi Zhou ◽  
Hongbo Lu ◽  
Xinmin Zhang ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Miao Xu ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (40) ◽  
pp. 9576-9580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinjie Lu ◽  
Wei Gu ◽  
Jia Wei ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Zhengbiao Zhang ◽  
...  

Three kinds of novel planar chiral azobenzenophane with high HTP values were synthesized. Then, cholesteric liquid crystals with different screw directions were induced by them successfully. And reversible tuning between orange and green reflection colors was achieved.


2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuna Kim ◽  
Michel Frigoli ◽  
Nicolas Vanthuyne ◽  
Nobuyuki Tamaoki

Photoisomerization of helical naphthopyran in cholesteric liquid crystals exhibited huge helical twisting power switching of over 90% resulting in significantly efficient rotational motion of micro-sized objects.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 2225-2231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Yoshizawa ◽  
Hiroki Higuchi ◽  
Yasushi Okumura ◽  
Hirotsugu Kikuchi

9,9′-biphenanthrene-type chiral dopants were newly synthesized for the development of functional liquid crystal (LC) materials with enhanced properties. A cholesteric LC (CLC) with a chiral dopant showed positive temperature dependence of helical twisting power and a CLC with temperature independence was developed by mixing two types of chiral dopants.


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