Polymer modified liquid crystals Chapter 6 Introduction to Polymer Stabilized Liquid Crystals6.1 General Sample Preparation; 6.2 Polymer Networks Templating Liquid Crystalline Order; 6.3 Polymer Network Morphology and Electro optic Performance; References; Chapter 7 Polymer stabilized Nematics and Their Applications; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Influence of Polymer Stabilization on the Electro optic Characteristics; 7.2.1 Planar aligned Nematic Devices with Transverse Electric Fields; 7.2.2 In plane and Fringe field Switching Nematic Devices; 7.2.3 Polymer stabilized Twisted Nematic and Vertically aligned Nematic Devices Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 What are Liquid Crystals; 1.2 Liquid Crystal Phases; 1.2.1 Thermotropic Phases; 1.2.2 Lyotropic Phases; 1.3 Chirality and Chiral Liquid Crystals; 1.4 Polymer modified Liquid Crystals; References; Chapter 2 Phase Diagrams Phase Separation Mechanisms and Morphologies in Liquid Crystalline Materials: Principles and Theoretical Foundations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Phase Transition Mechanisms; 2.3 Integration of Phase Diagrams Phase Separation Mechanisms and Morphology Bridging soft matter physics materials science and engineering polymer modified liquid crystals are an exciting class of materials. They represent a vibrant field of research promising advances in display technologies as well as non display uses. Describing all aspects of polymer dispersed and polymer stabilized liquid crystals the broad coverage of this book makes it a must have resource for anyone working in the area. The reader will find expert accounts covering basic concepts materials synthesis and polymerization techniques properties of various dispersed and stabilized phases and critical overviews of their applications. Written by leaders in the field this book provides a state of the art treatment of the topic. It will be essential reading for graduate students as well as academic and industrial researchers needing an up to date guide to the field 7.2.4 Polymer Stabilization in π cells7.3 Advanced Fabrication Techniques for Polymer stabilized Nematic Devices; 7.4 Polymer stabilized Nematic Liquid Crystal Microlenses; 7.5 Summary; References; Chapter 8 Electrical Color Tuning in Polymer stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Construction of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal; 8.3 States of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal and their Optical Properties; 8.4 Transitions Between Cholesteric States; 8.5 Polymer stabilized Ch Liquid Crystals; 8.6 Polymer stabilized Ch Liquid Crystals With Positive Dielectric Anisotropy 2.4 Competition Between Chemical Kinetics and Phase Separation2.5 Effects of Chemical Structure on the Phase Diagram and Morphology; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3 Photo reactive Mesogens; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Bifunctional Photo reactive Monomers; 3.3 Summary; References; Chapter 4 Electron Beam Curing of Monomer Liquid Crystal Blends; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Experimental; 4.2.1 Materials; 4.2.2 Sample Preparation; 4.3 Results and Discussion; 4.3.1 Phase Diagrams by POM; 4.3.2 Infrared Spectroscopy; 4.3.3 Morphologies; 4.3.4 Electro optical Responses; 4.4 Conclusions; References Chapter 5 Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Non patterned Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals; 5.2.1 Fabrication Methods and Working Principles; 5.2.2 Nano PDLCs; 5.2.3 PDLCs Doped with Nanoparticles; 5.2.4 Dye doped PDLCs; 5.2.5 Other Liquid Crystal Polymer Composites; 5.3 Periodic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals; 5.3.1 Photo polymerization Regimes and Materials; 5.3.2 Electro optical Properties of HPDLCs in Transmission Geometry; 5.3.3 Electro optical Properties of HPDLCs in Reflection Geometry; 5.4 POLICRYPS Gratings; Acknowledgements; References