Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2319626
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...
{"title":"Novel liquid crystalline fluorene and fluorenone MIDA boronates: influence of alkyl vs alkoxy side chains on the mesomorphic properties","authors":"Christopher Schilling, Anna Zens, Sabine Laschat","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2319626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2319626","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139981192","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 : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2310611
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 ...
{"title":"Inderdigitation, double twist, and topological defects in a system of hard lollipops","authors":"Piotr Kubala, Michał Cieśla","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2310611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2310611","url":null,"abstract":"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 ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"178 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946123","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 : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2321474
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...
{"title":"The influence of the side-arms structure on the properties of the liquid crystal dimers centred on mandelic acid","authors":"Xin-Yu Zhang, Min Liu, Fang-Yuan Li, Meng-Shu Li, Wen-Xiu Wang, Dan-Shu Yao, Mei Tian","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2321474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2321474","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"178 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946106","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 : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2319631
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...
众所周知,甾体衍生物能够根据甾体骨架的结构和取代基的不同而显示出各种介相,包括沮相。
{"title":"Mesomorphic behaviour and photoluminescence study of novel homologous series of Schiff’s base derived from cholesteryl carbonate and thiadiazole moiety","authors":"Sagar K. Bairwa, Srujal A. Sonera, R. C. Tandel","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2319631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2319631","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946122","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}
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...
{"title":"Mechano-chemical synthesis of liquid crystal materials: an easy method towards fast, simple and almost solvent-free molecular screening","authors":"Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennins Kwaria, Motonobu Kuwayama, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Fumito Araoka","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2319629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2319629","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139922090","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 : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2313003
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...
{"title":"Cybotactic nematic liquid crystal – an overview","authors":"Abu Kausar Nasir, Muklesur Rahman","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2313003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2313003","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910042","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 : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2306323
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...
{"title":"Advances in 4-cyanobiphenyl tethered discotic oligomers and supermolecular liquid crystalline materials","authors":"Shallu Dhingra, Santanu Kumar Pal","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2306323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2306323","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772870","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 : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2313023
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...
{"title":"Inversion ring in chromonic twisted hedgehogs: theory and experiment","authors":"Federica Ciuchi, Maria Penelope De Santo, Silvia Paparini, Lorenza Spina, Epifanio G. Virga","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2313023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2313023","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755367","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 : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2314617
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...
{"title":"Liquid crystallinity and magnetorheological performance of polymeric liquid crystal magnetic composites","authors":"Xinqiao Tang, Huiji Hu, Zhe Qu, Fan-Bao Meng, Jiwei Wang","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2314617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2314617","url":null,"abstract":"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...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755508","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}