3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomeric Actuators with Spatially Programed Nematic Order
Advanced Materials, 2018 Arda Kotikian +4 more
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Crystals, 2021 Cholesteric liquid crystals are frequently produced by the addition of chiral dopants to achiral nematic hosts. We report here the synthesis and performance of chiral dopants obtained from bio-betulin produced by a fermentation process.
Veridiana G. Guimarães +6 more
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Self-Localized Liquid Crystal Micro-Droplet Arrays on Chemically Patterned Surfaces
Crystals, 2021 Liquid crystal (LC) micro-droplet arrays are elegant systems that have a range of applications, such as chemical and biological sensing, due to a sensitivity to changes in surface properties and strong optical activity.
Jakub Kołacz, Qi-Huo Wei
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Frustration of crystallisation by a liquid–crystal phase [PDF]
, 2017 Frustration of crystallisation by locally favoured structures is critically important in linking the phenomena of supercooling, glass formation, and liquid-liquid transitions.
González-Jiménez, Mario +5 more
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Tunable light beam steering device using polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals [PDF]
, 2017 A polarization independent and fast electrically switchable beam steering device is presented, based on a surface relief grating combined with polymer stabilized blue phase liquid crystals.
Beeckman, Jeroen +8 more
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Bioinspired conductive cellulose liquid-crystal hydrogels as multifunctional electrical skins
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance We present an electronic skin (E-skin) based on hydroxypropyl cellulose composite hydrogel with stable cholesteric liquid-crystal structures and bright structural colors.
Zhuohao Zhang +3 more
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Light-addressable liquid crystal polymer dispersed liquid crystal [PDF]
, 2017 Scattering-free liquid crystal polymer-dispersed liquid crystal polymer (LCPDLC) films are fabricated by combining a room temperature polymerizable liquid crystal (LC) monomer with a mesogenic photosensitive LC.
Bunning, T. J. +5 more
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Monolithic shape-programmable dielectric liquid crystal elastomer actuators [PDF]
Science Advances, 2019 Maxwell stress–activated shape-morphing liquid crystal elastomer actuators are efficient, fast, and forceful. Soft robotics may enable many new technologies in which humans and robots physically interact, yet the necessary high-performance soft actuators
Z. Davidson +7 more
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The design and investigation of nanocomposites containing dimeric nematogens and liquid crystal gold nanoparticles with plasmonic properties showing a nematic-nematic phase transition (Nᵤ-Nₓ/Ntb) [PDF]
, 2014 The construction of liquid crystal compositions consisting of the dimeric liquid crystal, CB_C9_CB (cyanobiphenyl dimer = 1",9"-bis(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl)nonane), and the range of nematic systems is explored.
Kohlmeier, Alexandra +6 more
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Liquid crystal programmable metasurface for terahertz beam steering
, 2020 The coding metasurface integrated with tunable materials offers an attractive alternative to manipulate the THz beam dynamically. In this work, we demonstrate a THz programmable metasurface based on liquid crystal.
Jingbo Wu +13 more
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