Fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials are widely used in LCD manufacturing scenarios. The competitiveness of local companies needs to be improved in the future.

Fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials refer to liquid crystal materials containing fluorine atoms. According to the different positions of fluorine atoms in the molecular structure, fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials can be divided into terminal fluorine-substituted liquid crystals, lateral fluorine-substituted liquid crystals, central bridge bond fluorine-substituted liquid crystals, etc. Since fluorine atoms have special properties such as good electronic effects, simulation effects, and penetration effects, the introduction of fluorine atoms into liquid crystal materials can bring significant performance improvements to the liquid crystal materials, such as enhancing the dielectric anisotropy of the liquid crystal materials, Low temperature performance, compatibility, photothermal stability, reducing its viscosity and temperature dependence, etc.

Generally speaking, fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials have the advantages of low viscosity, high resistivity, high dielectric constant, and fast response speed, and can be widely used in electronics, medical, environmental protection and other fields. Specifically, in the electronics field, fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials are mainly used in liquid crystal display manufacturing scenarios, especially active matrix liquid crystal displays (AM-LCD) and thin film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD) manufacturing scenarios; in the medical field, including Fluorine liquid crystal materials can be used to make fluorescent probes, drug carriers, etc.; in the field of environmental protection, liquid crystal displays can be used to prepare adsorbents and catalysts to remove organic pollutants in the atmosphere or water.

Among them, liquid crystal displays are the main application scenario of fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials. Currently, under the background of rapid development of downstream markets, the domestic market demand for fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials is continuing to increase. The size of my country’s LCD display market in 2022 will be approximately 249.35 billion yuan. Against this background, the domestic liquid crystal material market size has reached 4.01 billion yuan in 2022. As one of the subcategories of liquid crystal materials, fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials have broad market development space.

According to the“2023-2028 Fluorine-Containing Liquid Crystal Materials Industry Market In-depth Research and Investment Prospects Forecast Analysis Report” released by the Industrial Research Center , the technical barriers to the production of fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials are high, and there are still problems such as impurities that are difficult to control and purification difficulties in their production. Therefore, there are currently only a few companies in the domestic fluorine-containing liquid crystal material market. Only Laiyang Shenghua Electronic Materials Co., Ltd., Jiangxi Huiqin Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., Shandong Shenghua New Material Technology Co., Ltd., Shanghai Kangpeng Technology Co., Ltd., Hebei Milestone Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. and a few other companies, and local companies have established partnerships with Merck of Germany and Japan. There is still a big gap compared with leading international companies such as Chisso, and the industry still has a lot of room for growth in the future.

Industry analysts said that fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials are liquid crystal materials containing fluorine atoms and have excellent performance. It can be widely used in LCD manufacturing scenarios, especially high-end LCDs such as active matrix LCDs and thin film transistor LCDs. Under the current background of rapid development of the domestic LCD market, the market demand for fluorine-containing liquid crystal materials continues to increase, and the industry development prospects are good. However, due to technical limitations, the number of fluorine-containing liquid crystal material manufacturers in my country is still relatively small, and their competitiveness is weak. There is still room for growth in the industry in the future.