Issue 6, 2017
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Materials Horizons

Organic liquid-crystal devices based on ionic conductors†

Can Hui Yang, ORCID logo abc   Shuang Zhou,ac   Samuel Shian,a   David R. Clarkea  and  Zhigang Suo*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a John A. Paulson, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
E-mail: suo@seas.harvard.edu

b International Center for Applied Mechanics, State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

c Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7MH00345E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 May 2017
Accepted
21 Aug 2017
First published
21 Aug 2017

Mater. Horiz., 2017,4, 1102-1109

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Organic liquid-crystal devices based on ionic conductors

C. H. Yang, S. Zhou, S. Shian, D. R. Clarke and Z. Suo, Mater. Horiz., 2017, 4, 1102 DOI: 10.1039/C7MH00345E

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