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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2019
Zymergen Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Kent State University, Kent, OH (US);
Adam Safir, Berkeley, CA (US);
Shilpa Naresh Raja, Emeryville, CA (US);
Arjan Zoombelt, Emeryville, CA (US);
Robert J. Twieg, Kent, OH (US);
Pawan Nepal, Kent, OH (US);
Ashani Wedige-Fernando, Kent, OH (US);
Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent, OH (US);
Zymergen Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Kent State University, Kent, OH (US);
Abstract
The disclosure discusses chiral dopants for liquid-crystalline materials. Chiral dopants can be bioreachable compounds, i.e. compounds produced from microbes through fermentation. Chiral dopants can also include bioreachable materials that are further modified by chemical synthetic steps. Chiral dopants as discussed herein can include biomolecules such as glycyrrhetinic acid (1), S-naringenin (2), shikimic acid (3), alpha-phellandrene (4), betulin (5), malic acid (6), valencene (7), or nootkatone (8), and any stereoisomers or chemically modified derivatives thereof. The disclosure further shows optical properties of such compounds in a liquid-crystalline material.