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Encapsulation of modified pigment yellow 110 (PY110) for electrophoretic display

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To improve the lower contrast ratio of yellow-white dual color electrophoretic display cell, dispersion polymerization, and miniemulsion polymerization method were used to obtain good performance of Pigment Yellow 110 (PY110) composite particles. Crude PY110 particles and Span80 were suspended into the ethanol by dispersion method to obtain PY110-S, which were subsequently coated with styrene (St) through a mini-emulsion polymerization procedure to acquire PS/PY110-S as an electronic ink material. The modified pigments were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Scanning electron microscope (SEM), UV–vis spectroscopy. Furthermore, the Pigment Red 146 which coated with styrene (St) through a miniemulsion polymerization procedure was doped into the PS/PY110-S. Then, the obtained mixed particles were successfully incorporated in an electrophoretic display cell. And the contrast ratio of yellow-white electrophoretic display cell was significantly improved. The contrast ratio reached 1.58.

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This work is supported by the Key project of the Natural Science Foundation of China for international academic exchanges under the contract No. 51020105010. The support from National Key Technologies R&D Program (21476162) is also appreciated.

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  1. School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People’s Republic of China

    Guoxiang Li, Shuxian Meng & Yaqing Feng

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, People’s Republic of China

    Guoxiang Li, Shuxian Meng & Yaqing Feng

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Li, G., Meng, S. & Feng, Y. Encapsulation of modified pigment yellow 110 (PY110) for electrophoretic display. Journal of Materials Research 31, 2261–2267 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2016.244

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