The present invention aims to provide a composition having a high n, a wide temperature range of a liquid crystal phase, low viscosity, good solubility at a low temperature, high resistivity, a high voltage holding ratio, and stability against heat and light; a liquid crystal composition containing the composition, the liquid crystal composition having a good lens effect and good chemical stability; a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal composition; and a liquid crystal lens including the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition contains one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (i) and one or two or more compounds represented by general formula (ii).

The invention relates to lateral fluorinated reactive mesogens (RMs) comprising a tolane group, to mixtures and formulations comprising them, to polymers obtained form such RMs and RM mixtures, and the use of the RMs, RM mixtures and polymers in optical or electrooptical components or devices, like optical films for liquid crystal displays (LCDs).

This invention relates to a process for the preparation of monodisperse optical and shape anisotropic polymer particles comprising monomer units of at least one reactive mesogen, such particles per se, the use of these particles for the preparation of optical, electrooptical, electronic electrochemical, electrophotographic, electrowetting and electrophoretic displays and/or devices and security, cosmetic, decorative, and diagnostic applications, and electrophoretic fluids and displays.

The invention relates to a method of preparing a polymer film and to the use of such polymer film as in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or other optical or electro optical devices, for decorative or security applications, as alignment layer or optical retardation film.

The invention relates to a birefringent RM lens obtainable from a polymerizable liquid crystalline medium consisting of a polymerizable liquid crystalline component A, consisting of one or more polymerizable mesogenic compounds, and a non-polymerizable component B, consisting of one or more non-polymerizable compounds
and to the use of such birefringent RM lenses in electro optical devices, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or other optical or electrooptical devices, for decorative or security applications.

The invention provides a polymerizable composition including a compound that has a mesogenic group and satisfying an expression represented by Expression (1): 1.0YI/n50.0, wherein YI represents a yellowness index of a material including only a compound having a mesogenic group in the polymerizable composition, and n represents a refractive index anisotropy of a material including only a compound having a mesogenic group in the polymerizable composition, with the proviso that a chiral compound having a mesogenic group is excluded in the material including only the compound having the mesogenic group. The polymerizable composition has high storage stability and is unlikely to cause an increase of the content of a polymer component when being added to a polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and is excellent in adhesiveness, is not unlikely to cause discoloration, and exhibits good coating properties and good alignment properties in preparing an optical anisotropic body.

This invention relates to a process for the preparation of monodisperse optical and shape anisotropic polymer particles comprising monomer units of at least one reactive mesogen, such particles per se, the use of these particles for the preparation of optical, electrooptical, electronic electrochemical, electrophotographic, electrowetting and electrophoretic displays and/or devices and security, cosmetic, decorative, and diagnostic applications, and electrophoretic fluids and displays.