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The blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) is a highly ordered liquid crystal (LC) phase that exists between cholesteric and isotropic phases in highly chiral liquid crystals. The BPLC has potential applications in next-generation display and photonic technology because of its unique properties such as polarizer-free fabrication, controllable Bragg reflection, sub-millisecond response time and wide viewing angle. BPLC is stable in a very small temperature range (0.5–1°C) and high driving voltage. To overcome these challenges, many new methods are being studied that increase the temperature range. The recent research focuses on studying the effect of the inclusion of silver nanoparticles onto the phase transition behaviour of blue phase materials. The effect is analysed using the polarizing microscopy and further confirmed by temperature-dependent dielectric spectroscopy.
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The Bulletin of Materials Science is a bi-monthly journal being published by the Indian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Materials Research Society of India and the Indian National Science Academy. The journal publishes original research articles, review articles and rapid communications in all areas of materials science. The journal also publishes from time to time important Conference Symposia/ Proceedings which are of interest to materials scientists. It has an International Advisory Editorial Board and an Editorial Committee. The Bulletin accords high importance to the quality of articles published and to keep at a minimum the processing time of papers submitted for publication.
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