Publication Sjoerd Stallinga in Advanced Materials

A collaboration of Sjoerd Stallinga with Stijn Kragt, Davey Hoekstra, Dick Broer and Albert Schenning of TU Eindhoven has led to a paper “3D Helix Engineering in Chiral Photonic Materials” in Advanced Materials (https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201903120).

The research describes a method to design new chiral nematic liquid crystal polymers in which the helical arrangement of the elongated liquid crystal molecules is manipulated to create patternable Bragg-reflectors with tuneable color and polarization sensitivity. Applications are foreseen in anti‐counterfeit labels and decorative prints.