A Soft Matter paper by groups from the Centre of Molecular Materials for Photonics and Electronics and the Inkjet Research Centre at the University of Camrbidge has appeared in a BBC News story. The paper describes the inkjet printing of liquid crystals on to a wet, solution-based polymer with precise control over droplet size.
Printed photonic arrays from self-organized chiral nematic liquid crystals
D. J. Gardiner, W.-K. Hsiao, S. M. Morris, P. J. W. Hands, T. D. Wilkinson, I. M. Hutchings and H. J. Coles, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 9977.
The BBC news story can be found here.
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