發現科學之美~本系陳惠玉老師及學生蘇冠丞拍攝之照片榮登國際液晶學會當月最佳照片
Macroscopic LC Ribbon
We put the cell between two crossed polarizers and took the picture by smartphone. It shows a macroscopic LC ribbon. The LC material, we used here is a mixture of dimer LC/nematic LC doped with chiral dopant and it is filled into a cell made by two clean glasses (without surface treatment). We heated the cell to isotropic phase and then put it into the refrigerator, where the temperature was around 10℃. The LC phase is the twist-bend chiral nematic phase. Small circular patterns with four black brushes can be seen in the beginning, and then they turn to layer structures with beautiful colors—the color shifts to a short wavelength at a higher temperature.
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