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Stiffening Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Liquid Crystal Inclusions. [PDF]
Adv MaterAbstract Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are promising building blocks for soft robots, given their large, programmable, reversible, and stimuli‐responsive shape change. Enhancing LCEs’ stiffness and toughness has been a longstanding desire previously explored by reinforcing them with fillers, crystalline microdomains, and ...
Vasanji S +7 more
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Soliton walls paired by polar surface interactions in a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal
Nature Communications, 2022 Surface interactions are usually polar along the normal to the interface and apolar within the interface. Here, the authors find that polar in-plane surface interactions produce domain structures in the bulk of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal.
Bijaya Basnet +7 more
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Ferroelectric nematic liquids with conics
Nature Communications, 2023 Defect lines shaped as conic sections are common in smectic liquid crystals, where they manifest equidistance of molecular layers curled in space. Here authors present hyperbolas and parabolas as domain walls in ferroelectric nematics, which are shaped ...
Priyanka Kumari +3 more
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Azimuthal Anchoring Strength in Photopatterned Alignment of a Nematic
Crystals, 2021 Spatially-varying director fields have become an important part of research and development in liquid crystals. Characterization of the anchoring strength associated with a spatially-varying director is difficult, since the methods developed for a ...
H. Nilanthi Padmini +3 more
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Biophysical Journal, 2014 SignificanceWe propose a class of active matter, the living liquid crystal (LLC), representing motile rod-shaped bacteria placed in water-based nontoxic liquid crystal. Long-range orientational order of the liquid crystal and the swimming activity of bacteria demonstrate a strong coupling that dramatically alters individual and collective bacterial ...
Zhou, Shuang +3 more
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ON LIQUID CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPERSIONS
Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Physics and Chemistry, 2022 This short review paper presents some important aspects ofliquid crystal and liquid crystal composites. Preparation methods ofpolymer dispersed liquid crystalfdms (PDLC), the obtained structure and their main application as light valve are shown. In the last decade, the field has experienced a sharp revitalization, due to nanodoping, which results in ...
Doina MĂNĂILĂ-MAXIMEAN +1 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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Observing liquid crystals through a liquid crystal
Liquid Crystals Today, 2023 MCIN/AEI and NextGenerationEU/PRTR through a María Zambrano Senior and a María Zambrano Junior ...
Adroher Benítez, Irene +2 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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Hierarchical organization in liquid crystal-in-liquid crystal emulsions [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2014 In emulsions formed from two immiscible liquid crystals, the orientations of the liquid crystals are coupled.
Peter C, Mushenheim, Nicholas L, Abbott
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