Pub Date : 2024-04-28DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2345237
Wenbo Yin, Yuzhen Zhao, Xiangke Jiao, Hong Gao, Yang Zhao, Dong Wang, Yi Luan, Zongcheng Miao
Due to the ability to switch between transparent and light scattering states, polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC) and polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLC) are widely used in ...
{"title":"Intelligent switchable nanomaterials doped optical switches with PDLC-PVA-PSCLC bilayer liquid crystal structure for smart windows","authors":"Wenbo Yin, Yuzhen Zhao, Xiangke Jiao, Hong Gao, Yang Zhao, Dong Wang, Yi Luan, Zongcheng Miao","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2345237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2345237","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the ability to switch between transparent and light scattering states, polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC) and polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLC) are widely used in ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141516176","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 : 2024-04-21DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2324338
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
In this paper, we model the configurations of a system of hard rods by viewing each rod in a cell formed by its neighbours. By minimising the free energy in the model and performing molecular dynam...
{"title":"A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles","authors":"Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2324338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2324338","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we model the configurations of a system of hard rods by viewing each rod in a cell formed by its neighbours. By minimising the free energy in the model and performing molecular dynam...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140634379","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 : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2334342
Ahlam F Alshammari, Amerigo Zattarin, Abigail Pearson, Ewan Cruickshank, Magdalena Majewska, Damian Pociecha, John MD Storey, Ewa Gorecka, Corrie T. Imrie, Rebecca Walker
The synthesis and characterisation of two series of nonsymmetric dimers belonging to the family of compounds, the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-ω-(4-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)alkanes (CBnO.m) is r...
{"title":"Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O.m and CB8O.m series","authors":"Ahlam F Alshammari, Amerigo Zattarin, Abigail Pearson, Ewan Cruickshank, Magdalena Majewska, Damian Pociecha, John MD Storey, Ewa Gorecka, Corrie T. Imrie, Rebecca Walker","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2334342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2334342","url":null,"abstract":"The synthesis and characterisation of two series of nonsymmetric dimers belonging to the family of compounds, the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-ω-(4-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)alkanes (CBnO.m) is r...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140630756","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 : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2341860
René Wittmann
Grain boundaries in extremely confined colloidal smectics possess a topological fine structure with coexisting nematic and tetratic symmetry of the director field. An alternative way to approach th...
{"title":"Layer topology of smectic grain boundaries","authors":"René Wittmann","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2341860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2341860","url":null,"abstract":"Grain boundaries in extremely confined colloidal smectics possess a topological fine structure with coexisting nematic and tetratic symmetry of the director field. An alternative way to approach th...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614670","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 : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2339918
Ankita Sutar, Prathmesh Sarnaik, Swapnil Doke, M. Abdul Haque, Shital Kahane
The current study focuses on elucidating the interaction mechanisms between ZnCuGaS2 quantum dots (QDs) and nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) (5CB), intending to comprehend how this interaction leads ...
{"title":"Exploring the electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystal through incorporation of ZnCuGaS2 core/shell quantum dots","authors":"Ankita Sutar, Prathmesh Sarnaik, Swapnil Doke, M. Abdul Haque, Shital Kahane","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2339918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2339918","url":null,"abstract":"The current study focuses on elucidating the interaction mechanisms between ZnCuGaS2 quantum dots (QDs) and nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) (5CB), intending to comprehend how this interaction leads ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614432","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 : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2339913
Ivan I. Yakovkin, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Timothy J. Bunning, Dean R. Evans
This study examines the structural configuration of Yagi-Uda micro-antenna arrays, the resonant properties of which are tunable through nematic liquid crystals in the terahertz spectral region. Reo...
{"title":"Tunable THz absorbers based on LC-tuned Yagi-Uda antennas","authors":"Ivan I. Yakovkin, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Timothy J. Bunning, Dean R. Evans","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2339913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2339913","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the structural configuration of Yagi-Uda micro-antenna arrays, the resonant properties of which are tunable through nematic liquid crystals in the terahertz spectral region. Reo...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614516","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 : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2339903
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Saranrat Asamo, Asmita Shah, Bhavna Pal, Pongthep Prajongtat, Patrick Ropa, Benoit Duponchel, Michael Depriester
5CB liquid crystal (LC) is a well-studied material for a variety of applications due to its orientational ordering and viscosity. LCs mostly suffer from ionic impurities which can be filtered using...
{"title":"5CB molecular dynamics on TiO2-coated planar aligned ITO electrodes","authors":"Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Saranrat Asamo, Asmita Shah, Bhavna Pal, Pongthep Prajongtat, Patrick Ropa, Benoit Duponchel, Michael Depriester","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2339903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2339903","url":null,"abstract":"5CB liquid crystal (LC) is a well-studied material for a variety of applications due to its orientational ordering and viscosity. LCs mostly suffer from ionic impurities which can be filtered using...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614638","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 : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2337021
Rohit Kumar, Gajjala Sumana, Amit Choudhary, Seema Sood, Rajesh
A highly selective and sensitive label-free liquid crystal (LC)-based optical DNA biosensor has been reported for the detection of bacterial disease. A sensing platform is constructed using nematic...
据报道,一种高选择性和高灵敏度的无标记液晶(LC)光学 DNA 生物传感器可用于检测细菌疾病。该传感平台采用向列...
{"title":"Liquid crystal assisted optical DNA biosensor for the selective detection of bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae","authors":"Rohit Kumar, Gajjala Sumana, Amit Choudhary, Seema Sood, Rajesh","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2337021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2337021","url":null,"abstract":"A highly selective and sensitive label-free liquid crystal (LC)-based optical DNA biosensor has been reported for the detection of bacterial disease. A sensing platform is constructed using nematic...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615056","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 : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2324465
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
The elastic theory of chromonic liquid crystals is not completely established. We know, for example, that for anomalously low twist constants (needed for chromonics) the classical Oseen-Frank theor...
{"title":"What a twist cell experiment tells about a quartic twist theory for chromonics","authors":"Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2324465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2324465","url":null,"abstract":"The elastic theory of chromonic liquid crystals is not completely established. We know, for example, that for anomalously low twist constants (needed for chromonics) the classical Oseen-Frank theor...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614517","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 : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2333323
J. L. Hobbs, C. J. Gibb, E. Cruickshank, R. Walker, R. J. Mandle
We present an approach for rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals. We use a simple graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages rules-based methods for efficient gener...
{"title":"Rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals","authors":"J. L. Hobbs, C. J. Gibb, E. Cruickshank, R. Walker, R. J. Mandle","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2333323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2333323","url":null,"abstract":"We present an approach for rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals. We use a simple graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages rules-based methods for efficient gener...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561349","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}