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Liquid crystals are widely used as a host matrix to embed different materials: dyes, fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, various nanoparticles (metallic, semiconductor, ferromagnetic, ferroelectric). The usual approach is related to the so called "guest-host" effect: external electric (or magnetic) fields drive liquid crystals (host), and liquid crystals reorient embedded particles (guest). In this paper we report an experimental observation of the effect that is completely opposite to the classical "guest-host" phenomenon: ferroelectric nanoparticles being switched by an external field mediate the switching of liquid crystals. Our experiments show that ferroelectric nanoparticles reorient and hold liquid crystal molecules in a direction of the ferroelectric nanoparticles orientation even when an external electric field attempts to orient a liquid crystal in an orthogonal direction.
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Garbovskiy et al. (2020) studied this question.
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