Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 2021, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (10): 1268-1298.DOI: 10.19894/j.issn.1000-0518.210385

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Research Progress of Holographic Polymer/Liquid Crystal Composites

Dan WANG, Hai-Yan PENG(), Xing-Ping ZHOU, Xiao-Lin XIE()   

  1. Key Laboratory for Material Chemistry of Energy Conversion and Storage,Ministry of Education,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan 430074,China
  • Received:2021-08-21 Accepted:2021-09-06 Published:2021-10-01 Online:2021-10-15
  • Contact: Hai-Yan PENG,Xiao-Lin XIE
  • About author:xlxie@hust.edu.cn; hypeng@hust.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(51773073)

Abstract:

Holographic polymer/liquid crystal (LC) composites are one type of structure ordered composites with the holographic function, which represent the unique capability of reconstructing the whole infomation of coherent lasers by using the periodically arranged polymer-rich and LC-rich phases. According to LC contents and preparation methods, holographic polymer/LC composites comprised holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC), holographic polymer stabilized liquid crystal (HPSLC), and polymer-liquid-crystal-polymer slices (POLICRYPS). This review mainly summarizes the methods to tune the structure and performance of HPDLC in recent 5 years, along with the research progress of HPSLC and POLICRYPS. Applications of holographic polymer/LC composites in high-tech fields such as advanced anti-counterfeiting and augmented reality are also highlighted. Last, research challenges and opportunities are proposed.

Key words: Liquid crystal, Polymer, Structure ordered composites, Holography, Anti-counterfeiting, Augmented reality

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