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SUBMITTER: Ma LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6432147 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Ling-Ling LL Duan Wei W Tang Ming-Jie MJ Chen Lu-Jian LJ Liang Xiao X Lu Yan-Qing YQ Hu Wei W
Polymers 20170721 7
Cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) has attracted intensive attention due to its ability to form a periodic helical structure with broad tunability. CLC gratings in open systems are especially promising in sensing and micromanipulation. However, there is still much to learn about the inherent mechanism of such gratings. We investigate the light-driven rotation and pitch-tuning behaviors of CLC gratings in semi-free films which are formed by spin-coating the CLC mixtures onto planarly photoaligned s ...[more]