Pub Date : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2314628
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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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...
{"title":"The regulation of electro-optical properties and polymer morphology of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films with silicon nanostructure","authors":"Cuihong Zhang, Ruibin Ma, Zhenyu Gao, Mingyue Zheng, Zemin He, Zongcheng Miao","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2313012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2313012","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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...
{"title":"Preparation and properties of highly flexible cholesteric side-chain liquid crystalline elastomers with selective reflective properties in the visible region","authors":"Run-He Qin, Rui-Yi Bao, Qi-Xuan Wu, Xin-Yu Zhang, Fang-Yuan Li, Mei Tian","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2314615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2314615","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2311278
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...
聚合物稳定胆甾型液晶的电光响应可表现为开关、调谐或带宽拓宽。这些复合材料的电光响应归因于...
{"title":"Enhancing the electro-optic response of polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals with ionic dopants","authors":"Brian P. Radka, Gaurav K. Pande, Timothy J. White","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2311278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2311278","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2306318
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...
{"title":"Theoretical model for the Frank elastic moduli in the intercalated SmAb phase of bent-shaped dimers","authors":"Claire Meyer, Tatiana Sergan, Vassili Sergan, Daniel Stoenescu, Patrick Davidson, Anamarija Knežević, Irena Dokli, Andreja Lesac, Ivan Dozov","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2306318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2306318","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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...
光驱动液晶显示器(ODLCD)利用偏振光场控制液晶的方向,无需外部电场即可保持显示内容。
{"title":"Improvement of rewriting time of optically driven liquid crystal display by azo-dye doping","authors":"Hao Tang, Yuteng Qian, Xiaoran Guan, Jieyu Li, Minglei Cai, Tongzhou Zhao, Changyong Yang, Hongyu Xing, Wenjiang Ye","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2310612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2310612","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"223 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-06DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2310615
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...
{"title":"Deviation from the prediction of the Maier-Saupe theory of mixtures of charged discotic Gay-Berne and Lennard-Jones particles","authors":"Giacomo Saielli, Katsuhiko Satoh","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2310615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2310615","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2311277
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...
{"title":"Synthesis, chiral separation and physical properties of the cinnamic acid derivatives exhibiting short-pitch cholesteric and TGB phases","authors":"Terézia Jurkovičová, Petra Vaňkátová, Martin Cigl, Vladimíra Novotná, Věra Hamplová, Damian Pociecha, Natalia Podoliak","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2311277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2311277","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139665833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-28DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2309224
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...
{"title":"Helix-coil and solvation-induced reentrant nematic-smectic A transitions in a polypeptide solution","authors":"Akihiko Matsuyama","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2309224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2309224","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139665838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}