Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets
Liquid crystal (LC) droplets are highly attractive for applications in privacy windows, optical switches, optical vortices, optical microresonators, microlenses, and biosensors due to their ease of fabrication and easy alignment at surfaces. This review presents the latest advancements in LC droplet...
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| author | Le Zhou Tingjun Zhong Huihui Wang Ke Xu Pouya Nosratkhah Kristiaan Neyts |
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| description | Liquid crystal (LC) droplets are highly attractive for applications in privacy windows, optical switches, optical vortices, optical microresonators, microlenses, and biosensors due to their ease of fabrication and easy alignment at surfaces. This review presents the latest advancements in LC droplets, which have nematic, chiral nematic, and twist–bend nematic and ferroelectric nematic phases, or blue phases. Finally, it discusses the challenges and opportunities for applications based on LC droplets. The main challenges encompass the precise control of internal structures and defects to meet diverse application requirements, enhancing stability and durability across various environments, reducing large-scale production costs to improve commercial feasibility, increasing response speeds to external stimuli to adapt to rapidly changing scenarios, and developing tunable LC droplets to achieve broader functionalities. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-16c27dc36205439998d52fc69fcdfde32025-08-20T02:28:12ZengMDPI AGCrystals2073-43522024-10-01141193410.3390/cryst14110934Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal DropletsLe Zhou0Tingjun Zhong1Huihui Wang2Ke Xu3Pouya Nosratkhah4Kristiaan Neyts5State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT), Clear Water Bay, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaDepartment of Chemistry, College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, ChinaKey Laboratory of Optoelectronics Technology, Ministry of Education, Being University of Technology, Beijing 100124, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT), Clear Water Bay, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT), Clear Water Bay, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies (SKLADT), Clear Water Bay, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaLiquid crystal (LC) droplets are highly attractive for applications in privacy windows, optical switches, optical vortices, optical microresonators, microlenses, and biosensors due to their ease of fabrication and easy alignment at surfaces. This review presents the latest advancements in LC droplets, which have nematic, chiral nematic, and twist–bend nematic and ferroelectric nematic phases, or blue phases. Finally, it discusses the challenges and opportunities for applications based on LC droplets. The main challenges encompass the precise control of internal structures and defects to meet diverse application requirements, enhancing stability and durability across various environments, reducing large-scale production costs to improve commercial feasibility, increasing response speeds to external stimuli to adapt to rapidly changing scenarios, and developing tunable LC droplets to achieve broader functionalities.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/14/11/934liquid crystal dropletscholesteric phaseblue phasetwist–bend nematic phaseferroelectric nematic phase |
| spellingShingle | Le Zhou Tingjun Zhong Huihui Wang Ke Xu Pouya Nosratkhah Kristiaan Neyts Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets Crystals liquid crystal droplets cholesteric phase blue phase twist–bend nematic phase ferroelectric nematic phase |
| title | Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets |
| title_full | Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets |
| title_fullStr | Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets |
| title_short | Progress and Prospect of Liquid Crystal Droplets |
| title_sort | progress and prospect of liquid crystal droplets |
| topic | liquid crystal droplets cholesteric phase blue phase twist–bend nematic phase ferroelectric nematic phase |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/14/11/934 |
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