The overall aim of this proposal for scientific collaboration between Czech and Polish teams is to acquire knowledge on unique self-organisation ability of liquid crystalline systems and to contribute to understanding of molecular architecture – nano-organization relation, which is of fundamental interest but also a starting point for future applications in opto-electronics and photonics. The main specific objectives of the project are: (I) to design and to study new low molar mass materials of various structures exhibiting the polar mesophases with ferroelectric and antiferroelectric (FLC) order over a broad temperature range (mostly PL team). (II) to design new photosensitive liquid crystalline dopants (PD) with photosensitive moieties (mainly the azoxy-group) and to study their properties and structures under external stimulus, like electric field or/and UV irradiation by X-ray scattering, dielectric spectroscopy and electro-optics (mostly CZ team). (III) to design binary and/or multicomponent photosensitive mixtures and composites (FLC+PD) responding the demands of specific applications in photonics and optoelectronics and to study and to tune their properties; special attention will be given to the operating temperature range of the FLC+PD composites and to appropriate value of the refractive indices suitable for technological processes (both CZ & PL teams).
Design of functional photochromic self-assembling materials and smart composites for advanced photonic applications (CZE-WAT-LCs)
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