LIQUID CRYSTAL, POLYMER AND COLLOID COMPOSITES      4 Credit Hours

Catalog description

(Slashed with MTSC 62640 ) Interdisciplinary science of systems consisting of liquid crystal, polymer and colloid. Statistical physics of composite systems, mixing free energy, phase separation principle, phase diagrams and phase separation dynamics. States, structures and free energies of liquid crystal, polymer and colloidal systems. Polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC), polymer stabilized liquid crystals (PSLC) and their applications. Laboratory experiments on composite systems and fabrication of PDLC and PSLC light shutters.