{"id":621,"date":"2016-06-14T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T03:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?page_id=621"},"modified":"2016-08-08T19:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T00:44:37","slug":"polymer-dispersed-liquid-crystals-pdlc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?page_id=621","title":{"rendered":"Polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk\/CMMPE\/res_mat_pdlc.html\">Intro to PDLCs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/13583149508047582\">Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals: A Look Back, A Look Ahead by Paul S. Drzaic<\/a><br \/>\nLiquid Crystal Dispersions by Paul S Drzaic<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu\/index.php\/Polymer-Dispersed_Liquid_Crystals\">Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plc.cwru.edu\/tutorial\/enhanced\/files\/textbook.htm\">Liquid Crystal Online Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/product-detail\/ITO-film-for-EMI-shielding-transparent_1227927361.html?spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.VgjtNU\">ITO film, $10\/m2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorlabs.com\/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=9535\">ITO film<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lcp.elis.ugent.be\/tutorials\/lc\/lc5\">Collection of liquid crystal links<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good room temperature nematic is a liquid crystal mixture called E7. It is stable at a wide range of temperatures (-20 &#8211; 60 C). 12 EUR \/ g for 100g. <\/p>\n<p>5CB (4-Cyano-4&#8242;-pentylbiphenyl) ($9\/g from China, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rexscientific.com\/store\/index.php?route=product\/category&#038;path=60\">$14\/g Rexscientific<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waters.com\/webassets\/cms\/library\/docs\/720004814en.pdf\">Analysis of Merck E7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorlabs.com\/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=5622\">Empty liquid crystal cells, $230<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Polymer with a good refractive index match to LCs: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorlabs.com\/thorproduct.cfm?partnumber=NOA65\">NOA65, $30\/oz<\/a>.  UV curable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/NANOYOUproject\/experiment-with-liquid-crystals-teacher-guide\">University lab with recipe for liquid crystals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manufacture<\/strong><br \/>\nspacing using microbeads<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microspheres-nanospheres.com\/Microspheres\/Inorganic\/Glass\/Glass.htm\">15-25 um, $48<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cospheric.com\/SiO2MS_monodisperse_silica_spheres_beads_nm_microns.htm\">Cospheric beads, 0.166um-7.75um, $150\/g<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cospheric.com\/P2000_solid_soda_lime_glass_spheres_beads.htm\">Soda glass, D50=8-12um, $85<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaaldrich.com\/life-science\/biochemicals\/biochemical-products.html?TablePage=15929396\">Sigma microbeads<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spherotech.com\/silica_par.htm\">6.0-8.0 um, $150<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro to PDLCs Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals: A Look Back, A Look Ahead by Paul S. Drzaic Liquid Crystal Dispersions by Paul S Drzaic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals Liquid Crystal Online Lab ITO film, $10\/m2 ITO film Collection of liquid crystal links A good room temperature nematic is a liquid crystal mixture called E7. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/621\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}