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Preparation of a double-layer liquid crystal optical shutter with fluorescent properties and its ultraviolet shielding screening properties Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Wenbo Yin, Yuzhen Zhao, Hong Gao, Zhuohong Du, Dong Wang, Chunsheng Li, Yi Luan, Hui Cao, Zhou Yang, Wanli He
Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films and polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLC) films have been widely applied in smart optoelectronics due to electrical switching properti...
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Dynamically reconfigurable complex liquid crystal emulsions Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Almudena Terrel, Silvia Del Moral, Alejandro Martínez-Bueno, Alberto Concellón
Complex emulsions, containing liquid crystals (LCs) and immiscible oils such as fluorocarbon or silicone oils, present innovative functionalities in soft materials. These emulsions exhibit dynamic ...
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Nematogenic homologous series of coumarin derivatives containing azomethine-ester linkages: synthesis, characterisation, photophysical and mesomorphic properties Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Srujal A. Sonera, Sagar K. Bairwa, R. C. Tandel
Novel Homologous series of coumarin based Schiff’s base derivatives derived from 4’-formyl phenyl 7-n-alkoxycoumarin-3-carboxylate and 4-n-(decyloxy)aniline have been synthesised. The proposed stru...
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A novel double-layer liquid crystal electro-optic switch and its infrared shielding properties investigation Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Wenbo Yin, Yang Zhao, Zemin He, Yuzhen Zhao, Huimin Zhang, Hong Gao, Jianjing Gao, Zongcheng Miao, Yi Luan
In this study, a novel light switch was developed by integrating polymer dispersion liquid crystals (PDLC) and polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLC), leveraging the infrared shield...
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Enhanced liquid crystal performance through alkoxybenzoic acid doping Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Taysir Missaoui, Lotfi Saadaoui, Slim Zghal, Ahlem Guesmi, Naoufel Ben Hamadi, Xinzheng Zhang, Taoufik Soltani
This study investigates the impact of doping agents, 4-octyloxybenzoic acid (8OBA) and 4-octyloxy-3-fluoro benzoic acid (8OBAF), on the thermodynamic and electro-optical properties of the nematic l...
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Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal with low driving voltage utilising reaction selectivity of two-stage polymerisation Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Hongbo Lu, Han Wang, Hao Bai, Yumeng Wang, Longzhen Qiu, Jun Zhu, Miao Xu
An optimised approach is presented in this study for the fabrication of a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) device with a low driving voltage and high contrast ratio (CR). This method involve...
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Low-voltage electrochromic behaviour of polymer-stabilised liquid crystal with considerable broadband reflection Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Hui Lin, Yuzhen Zhao, Zemin He, Hong Gao, Jianjing Gao, Dong Wang, Yi Luan
In this work, a novel method was proposed to achieve electric-induced colouration of polymer-stabilised liquid crystal (PSLC) with considerable broadband reflection. The formation of broadband refl...
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Distinctive features of pretransitional behaviour between nematic phases as revealed by DDM Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nerea Sebastián, Luka Cmok, Andrej Petelin, Richard J. Mandle, Alenka Mertelj
Pretransitional behaviour, with strong softening of the bend or splay elastic constants, is characteristic of two of the nematic to nematic phase transitions reported in the last decade. Such softe...
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Theoretical models for the nematic twist-bend phase and the Landau de Gennes theory of Longa and Tomczyk Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 M. A. Osipov
We present a critical analysis of the existing phenomenological theories of the nematic twist-bend phase including the models proposed by Dozov and Selinger and the more general Landau de Gennes th...
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Synthesis, mesomorphic and magnetic properties at room temperature of biphenyl ester-aromatic imine with terminal alkoxy chains and methoxy substituent Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Nur Amanina Juniasari Tun Nur Iskandar, Guan-Yeow Yeap, Nobuyuki Maeta, M. Ito Masato, Katarzyna Gas, Maciej Sawicki
A series of calamitic biphenyl ester-aromatic imine derived from the reaction of 4-formylphenyl-4’-(alkyloxy)-[1,1’-biphenyl]-4-carboxylate and p-anisidine have been successfully synthesised and ch...
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Liquid crystal polymers with dual properties of fluorescence and selective reflection-design, synthesis and characterisation Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Qing-Qing Xiong, Jia-Yi Wu, Hong-Shuang Zhang, Ji-Feng Gao, Shuai-Yin Ma, Xiao-Zhi He
In this paper, two series of side chain fluorescent cholesteric liquid crystal polymers (FL-ChLCPs) were prepared by one-step method with polymethyl-hydrosiloxane (PMHS) as the main chain. Two seri...
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Novel liquid crystalline fluorene and fluorenone MIDA boronates: influence of alkyl vs alkoxy side chains on the mesomorphic properties Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christopher Schilling, Anna Zens, Sabine Laschat
To obtain novel boron liquid crystals, we successfully combined MIDA boronates with chromophoric fluorene and fluorenone mesogenic units and studied the influence of alkoxy versus alkyl side chains...
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The influence of the side-arms structure on the properties of the liquid crystal dimers centred on mandelic acid Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Xin-Yu Zhang, Min Liu, Fang-Yuan Li, Meng-Shu Li, Wen-Xiu Wang, Dan-Shu Yao, Mei Tian
With mandelic acid (MA) as the chiral core, two series of non-symmetric liquid crystal (LC) dimers have been synthesised by changing the rigidity of the side-arms, namely the DBM-nC2B series and th...
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Mesomorphic behaviour and photoluminescence study of novel homologous series of Schiff’s base derived from cholesteryl carbonate and thiadiazole moiety Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Sagar K. Bairwa, Srujal A. Sonera, R. C. Tandel
The steroidal derivatives are widely known for their ability to display a variety of mesophases, including frustrated phases, depending on the structure of the steroidal skeleton and the substituen...
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Inderdigitation, double twist, and topological defects in a system of hard lollipops Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Piotr Kubala, Michał Cieśla
Using hard particle Monte Carlo simulations, we studied a three-dimensional system consisting of identical, lollipop-like particles. Each lollipop was built of five identical, tangent balls placed ...
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Mechano-chemical synthesis of liquid crystal materials: an easy method towards fast, simple and almost solvent-free molecular screening Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennins Kwaria, Motonobu Kuwayama, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Fumito Araoka
This paper provides guidance for the rapid, simple, and eco-friendly synthesis of liquid crystal (LC) molecules using the hot-trend mechanochemical (MC) synthesis in the community of organic synthe...
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Cybotactic nematic liquid crystal – an overview Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Abu Kausar Nasir, Muklesur Rahman
The recent identification of ferroelectricity within the nematic phase of liquid crystals has triggered significant interest. However, prior to this discovery; the potential existence of ferroelect...
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Faster and low-power-operated highly luminescent CdSe nanoplatelets incorporated ferroelectric liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nilesh Pote, Ram J. Chaudhary, Prasun Ganguly, Arun Banpurkar
The ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLC) composites with improved electro-optic properties, obtained by incorporating CdSe (CS) nanoplatelets (NPLs), are reported. Noticeable improvementin optical c...
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Inversion ring in chromonic twisted hedgehogs: theory and experiment Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Federica Ciuchi, Maria Penelope De Santo, Silvia Paparini, Lorenza Spina, Epifanio G. Virga
Twisted hedgehogs are defects in spherical cavities with homeotropic anchoring for the nematic director that arise when twist distortions are sufficiently less energetic than splay (and bend) disto...
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Nematonics: from physics to photonics of reorientational solitons Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Armando Piccardi, Gaetano Assanto
Nematic Liquid Crystals are birefringent soft matter exhibiting unique nonlocal and nonlinear optical properties. Due to the interaction with finite-size light beams, self-focusing via molecular re...
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Advances in 4-cyanobiphenyl tethered discotic oligomers and supermolecular liquid crystalline materials Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Shallu Dhingra, Santanu Kumar Pal
A novel family of rod-like liquid crystals designed by Prof. G.W. Gray having nematic phase has been extensively used to make stable informative liquid crystal displays. These 4’-alkyl- and 4’-alko...
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The regulation of electro-optical properties and polymer morphology of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films with silicon nanostructure Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Cuihong Zhang, Ruibin Ma, Zhenyu Gao, Mingyue Zheng, Zemin He, Zongcheng Miao
In this work, the thiol modified silica nanostructures (SiO2-SH) were doped into polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films. The SEM was used to observe the morphology of the polymer microstruct...
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Preparation and properties of highly flexible cholesteric side-chain liquid crystalline elastomers with selective reflective properties in the visible region Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Run-He Qin, Rui-Yi Bao, Qi-Xuan Wu, Xin-Yu Zhang, Fang-Yuan Li, Mei Tian
In this paper, we have synthesised cholesteryl 4-allyloxybenzoate (MB), crosslinking agent dodecane-1,12-diyl bis(undec-10-enoate) (MG), and A’BGF series liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) films wh...
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Liquid crystallinity and magnetorheological performance of polymeric liquid crystal magnetic composites Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Xinqiao Tang, Huiji Hu, Zhe Qu, Fan-Bao Meng, Jiwei Wang
Magnetorheological fluids (MRF) are regarded as a novel ‘intelligent’ material because they show the ability to respond to external stimuli. However, with the extension of working time, the agglome...
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The 2022 Luckhurst-Samulski Prize Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Corrie T. Imrie
Published in Liquid Crystals (Vol. 50, No. 13-14, 2023)
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Effect of the varying repulsive core of Gay–Berne pair potential on the structure and freezing transition in a two-dimensional system of soft ellipses Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Pallabi Kundu, Sahire Azam Ansary, Pankaj Mishra
We have investigated the effect of the strength of repulsive core of Gay–Berne (GB) (n−6) pair potential on the pair correlations and isotropic-nematic (I−N) freezing transition in a system of soft...
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Enhancing the electro-optic response of polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals with ionic dopants Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Brian P. Radka, Gaurav K. Pande, Timothy J. White
The electro-optic response of polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals can manifest as switching, tuning, or bandwidth broadening. The electro-optic response of these composites is attributed...
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Synthesis and examination of alkoxycyanobiphenyl mesogens with a single fluorine atom at specific locations in the tail Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kiran Agrahari, Trenton J. Wolter, Evangelos Smith, Nicholas L. Abbott, Manos Mavrikakis, Jeffrey D. Mighion, Robert J. Twieg
Selective fluorination is a well-established technique to tailor and improve many of the physical properties of liquid crystals. Cyanobiphenyls are among the best-known and understood thermotropic ...
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Deviation from the prediction of the Maier-Saupe theory of mixtures of charged discotic Gay-Berne and Lennard-Jones particles Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Giacomo Saielli, Katsuhiko Satoh
We report an analysis of the orientational order and orientational distribution functions of mixtures of discotic charged Gay-Berne (GB) and Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles as models of ionic liquid c...
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Improvement of rewriting time of optically driven liquid crystal display by azo-dye doping Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Hao Tang, Yuteng Qian, Xiaoran Guan, Jieyu Li, Minglei Cai, Tongzhou Zhao, Changyong Yang, Hongyu Xing, Wenjiang Ye
Optically driving liquid crystal display (ODLCD) uses polarized light field to control the orientation of the liquid crystal, and the display content can be maintained without external electric fie...
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Theoretical model for the Frank elastic moduli in the intercalated SmAb phase of bent-shaped dimers Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Claire Meyer, Tatiana Sergan, Vassili Sergan, Daniel Stoenescu, Patrick Davidson, Anamarija Knežević, Irena Dokli, Andreja Lesac, Ivan Dozov
In our previous works we have shown that the elastic properties of the intercalated SmAb phase formed by bent-shaped dimers are governed by the nematic-like behaviour of the secondary director m th...
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Synthesis, chiral separation and physical properties of the cinnamic acid derivatives exhibiting short-pitch cholesteric and TGB phases Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Terézia Jurkovičová, Petra Vaňkátová, Martin Cigl, Vladimíra Novotná, Věra Hamplová, Damian Pociecha, Natalia Podoliak
Two new photosensitive chiral liquid crystalline materials derived from cinnamic acid were synthesised in (R) and (S) enantiomer forms. The materials were characterised by NMR spectroscopy, purifie...
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Helix-coil and solvation-induced reentrant nematic-smectic A transitions in a polypeptide solution Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Akihiko Matsuyama
A simple model is introduced to describe re-entrant isotropic-nematic and nematic-smectic A phase transitions mediated helix-coil transition and solvation within individual liquid crystalline semif...
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High-g-factor phase-matched second harmonic generation near photonic bandgap of polar cholesteric liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Xiuhu Zhao, Huaqian Long, Jinxing Li, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya
The discovery of polar liquid crystals, such as ferroelectric and helielectric liquid crystals, provides fascinating platforms for designing and modulating polarisation structures that generate str...
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Nematic and twist-bend nematic drops of surfactant-doped CB7CB as colloidal inclusions: topological defects and field effects Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 K. S. Krishnamurthy
Some recent studies on liquid crystal dispersions have shown that biphasic states of a mesogenic system, in which one phase appears as droplets or inclusions in the matrix of the other, are a conve...
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Selenium-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers: the effects of chalcogen linkage and spacer length on the twist-bend nematic phase Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Yuki Arakawa, Takuma Shiba, Kazunobu Igawa
We synthesised selenium-linked liquid crystal dimers and examined their phase behaviour to determine the effects of chalcogen linkage and spacer length on the formation of a twist-bend nematic (NTB...
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4’-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl - 5CB Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 John W Goodby
Thermotropic liquid crystals have been known from 1888, but have experienced little practical application or commercial usage up until the 1970s, when they were sandwiched between conducting glass ...
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The influence of molecular shape and electronic properties on the formation of the ferroelectric nematic phase Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ewan Cruickshank, Naila Tufaha, Rebecca Walker, Stevie Brown, Ewa Gorecka, Damian Pociecha, John M.D. Storey, Corrie T. Imrie
The synthesis and characterisation of two series of ferroelectric nematogens based on RM734 having an additional methoxy group on the central phenyl ring are reported, the 3-methoxy-4-((4-nitrophen...
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Fluorinated liquid crystals and their mixtures giving polar phases with enhanced low-temperature stability Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Chen Yang, Fan Ye, Xiang Huang, Jinxing Li, Xinxin Zhang, Yaohao Song, Satoshi Aya, Mingjun Huang
The fluid ferroelectrics, called ferroelectric nematics (NF), have recently become available by incorporating strong polarity into rod-shaped liquid crystal molecules. Its unprecedented electro-opt...
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Melted grain boundaries in smectic a under imposed bend: role of the anisotropy Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Ivan Dozov
The well-known de Gennes analogy between smectics and superconductors predicts two types of smectic A behaviour under imposed bend. In Type I smectics, the smectic order melts, expelling all of the...
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Thermoplastic liquid crystal elastomer soft actuators Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Sean J. D. Lugger, Dirk Jan Mulder, Michael G. Debije, Albert P. H. J. Schenning
This invited article is an account of a lecture on thermoplastic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) given at the 16th European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC) in Rende, Italy. Currently most LCE...
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Applications of the Peach-Koehler force in liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Cheng Long, Jonathan V. Selinger
In solids, external stress induces the Peach-Koehler force, which drives dislocations to move. Similarly, in liquid crystals, an external angular stress creates an analogous force, which drives dis...
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Nematic liquid crystal dispersed with two-dimensional functionalised graphene oxide (fGO): insights on improving the nematic ordering and reducing electro-optic response time Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Mudit Sahai, Shivaraja S. J., Sandeep Kumar, R. K. Gupta, Manjuladevi V
Doping a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) with nanoparticles (NPs) of varied dimensions and properties to form LC-NP nanocomposites with improved electro-optic and dielectric properties has recently be...
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Stochastic effects on solution landscapes for nematic liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 James Luke Dalby, Apala Majumdar, Yue Wu, Asha Kisan Dond
We study the effects of additive and multiplicative noise on the solution landscape of nematic liquid crystals confined to a square domain within the Landau-de Gennes framework, as well as the impa...
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Influence of the hemisphere on Janus structures containing cyanobiphenyl units Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Jorge Vergara, Alexander Brevis-Valdebenito, Paulina I. Hidalgo, Alvaro H. Cornejo, Barbara Berrios-Henriquez
New Janus-type compounds were synthesised with two different hemispheres structures and properties. The structures contain cyanobiphenyl units linked with 3,4,5-tribenzyloxybenzene or 3,4,5-tridecy...
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Influence of the length of end-group double bond substituents on the temperature change of phase transition in liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Zhimin Wang, Ruyue Sun, Jianqiang Xie, Xiangkai Zhang
A series of nematic liquid crystal (LC) monomers, containing a reactive group in the lateral substituent, were designed and synthesised through an organic synthesis reaction. Considerable changes w...
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Enhanced broadband reflection properties of PSCLCs films supported by electrospun nanofiber networks loaded with Cs0.33WO3 nanoparticles Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Xinyue Long, Yuzhen Zhao, Hong Gao, Zhuohong Du, Huimin Zhang, Yi Luan, Dong Wang, Chunsheng Li
The introduction of nanoparticles into cholesteric liquid crystals has long provided inspiration for innovative device materials. A novel material design strategy was demonstrated to achieve a broa...
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The influence of cholesteric helical ordering on the dynamics of liquid crystal microdroplet coalescence Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 N. V. Balenko, A. Yu. Bobrovsky, P. V. Dolganov
The dynamics of liquid crystal droplet coalescence in an isotropic melt was studied using polarised optical microscopy. Droplets of both nematic and cholesteric phases, formed from a mixture of nem...
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Gold nanoparticles doped organic liquid crystalline material for fast charge migration in nano-devices Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Akanksha Khare, Rahul Uttam, Sandeep Kumar, Ravindra Dhar
With the ever-growing need for low-cost, easily processable multifunctional materials and increasing miniaturisation in devices, we have landed in the era of nanodevices. Discotic liquid crystals a...
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Novel diphenylacrylonitrile-decorated cyclotriveratrylene columnar liquid crystals with high fluorescence Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Tao Deng, Hua Yan, Liangbin Lin, Hongyu Guo, Fafu Yang
Although some cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) liquid crystals had been reported, the CTV liquid crystal with high fluorescence in mesophase was not presented up to now. By introducing diphenylacrylonitri...
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Probing cytoplasmic streaming using liquid crystal droplets Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Florian von Rüling, Pemika Hirankittiwong, Anna Alova, Hajnalka Nádasi, Nattaporn Chattham, Alexander Bulychev, Alexey Eremin
Giant cells of characean algae provide an excellent platform for testing different techniques to explore cytoplasmic streaming, electrophysiological behaviour, intercellular communication, and drug...
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A cinnamate liquid crystal for rapid optical recording Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Zongqi Li, Jinghua Zhao, Liming Wu, Yi Li, Wei Liu, Yonggang Yang
Photorecording materials have been applied for information recording. Herein, a cinnamate liquid crystal with an enantiotropic nematic phase was synthesised, which can be isomerised and polymerised...
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Low driving voltage reverse-mode polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices using small phenylacetylene molecule Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Shiwen Yin, Xiaoshuai Li, Shimeng Ge, Yunlu Zhao, Hongmei Ma, Yubao Sun
Polymer-stabilised liquid crystal devices have found widespread use in intelligent displays and dimming glass applications, but their high driving voltage induces high power consumption and needs t...
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Colourful cholesteric liquid crystal polymer network gratings prepared through nanoimprinting Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jinghua Zhao, Yajie Yang, Limin Wu, Wei Liu, Yi Li, Yonggang Yang
Both the colourful cholesteric liquid crystal polymer network (CLCN) patterns and the gratings have attracted much attention for their applications as optical materials. Herein, the photochromic ch...
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Anne-Marie Levelut: four decades of structural studies of order and disorder in liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Marianne Impéror-Clerc, Patrick Davidson
Published in Liquid Crystals (Vol. 50, No. 11-12, 2023)
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Luminous and fluorescent cyanobiphenyls exhibiting super-cooled nematic phases Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Bommanahalli Shivalingegowda Ranjitha, Mohamed Alassar, Govindaswamy Shanker
A new series of liquid crystal dimers, 4-cyano-1,3-phenylene bis(4-((4’-cyano-[1,1’−biphenyl]-n-yl)oxy)alkanoate), has been synthesised and confirmed for their molecular structure using standard sp...
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Obituary Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Stephen Morris
Published in Liquid Crystals (Vol. 50, No. 13-14, 2023)
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Uncommon building blocks in liquid crystals Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 R. J. Mandle, C. J. Gibb, J. L. Hobbs
Just as nematic liquid crystals are widespread in display technology, a small number of building blocks find widespread use in the design and synthesis of liquid crystalline materials. This review ...
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Magnetorheological liquid-crystalline polymers with magnetic tetrachloroferrate ions based on polyvinyl chloride Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Luan Cui, Jiwei Wang, Guiyang Yan, Fan Liu, Keyi Wang, Yi Diao, Mingda Li, Fanbao Meng
Novel magnetic ionic polymers based on polyvinyl chloride ([PVCs][FeCl4]) with liquid-crystalline (LC) ordering were synthetised and characterised. The [PVCs][FeCl4] containing magnetic tetrachloro...
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Real-time visual humidity response films of interpenetrating polymer network based on cholesteric liquid crystal and poly (acrylic acid) Liq. Cryst. (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Wenzhu Cao, Na Zhao, Qingxiu Wang, Xiaolan Li, Lishuang Yao, Yongjun Liu
Humidity sensors play a critical role in diverse fields such as agricultural production, medical equipment, and weather forecasting. However, the majority of existing humidity sensors rely on batte...