Abstract
Materials that generate structural color may be promising alternatives to dyes and pigments due to their relative long-term stability and environmentally benign properties. Liquid crystal (LC) mixtures of cholesteryl esters demonstrate structural color due to light reflected from the helical structure of the self-assembled molecules. The apparent color depends on the pitch length of the liquid crystal. While a wide range of colors have been achieved with such LC formulations, the nature of the pitch–concentration relationship has been difficult to define. In this work, various machine learning approaches to predict the reflected wavelength, i.e., the position of the selective reflection band, based on LC composition are compared to a Scheffe cubic model. The neural network regression model had a higher root mean squared error (RMSE) than the Scheffe cubic model with improved predictions for formulations not included in the dataset. Decision tree regression provided the best overall performance with the lowest RMSE and predicted position of the selective reflection band within 0.8% of the measured values for LC formulations not included in the dataset. The predicted values using the decision tree were over two-fold more accurate than the Scheffe cubic model. These results demonstrate the utility of machine learning models for predicting physical properties of LC formulations.
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