Exfoliation of graphene oxide and its application in improving the electro-optical response of ferroelectric liquid crystal

Veeresh Kumar, Ajay Kumar, Shruti Bhandari, A. M. Biradar, G. B. Reddy, Renu Pasricha

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Abstract

Near complete exfoliation and reduction of lyophilized graphene oxide (GO) has been carried out at temperature as low as 400 °C. The structural characterizations of the reduced GO have been performed using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy techniques. The morphological studies were carried out using scanning electron microscopy. The synthesized GO finds an application in improving the switching performance of a liquid crystal (LC) mixture by remarkably modifying the physical properties, such as spontaneous polarization and rotational viscosity of the ferroelectric LC (FLC) material which in turn resulted into faster response of the FLC. The present study explores the possibility of low temperature thermal reduction of GO along with its application in improving the properties of LC based display systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number114904
JournalJournal of Applied Physics
Volume118
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 21 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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