Liquid Crystal Polymers: From Fabrication to Application

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on Polymers for Liquid Crystal Polymers: From Fabrication to Application is devoted to the dissemination of high-quality original research articles or comprehensive reviews on developments in this field. Currently, the polymerization of liquid crystal materials and liquid crystallization of polymers have become important research directions in related disciplines such as chemistry, materials, optical engineering, and information engineering. The use of side chain liquid crystal polymers, polymer dispersed liquid crystals, polymer stabilized liquid crystals, polymer network liquid crystals, polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal, holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals, along with liquid crystal polymers with new structures and supramolecular liquid crystals in the fields of smart windows, display, sensing, anti-counterfeiting, data storage, 5G communications, electronic packaging and so on, has become the research highlights of high-performance functional liquid crystal polymers. This Special Issue invites the latest progress by experts in the related fields.

Dr. Miao Xu
Guest Editor

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