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Artificial web of disclination lines in nematic liquid crystals
Nature Communications, 2017 Disclination lines are topological defects in molecular orientation widely found in liquid crystals. Here Wang et al. use a surface patterning technique to produce a very stable freestanding 3D array of ½ twist disclinations, which could be exploited in ...
Mengfei Wang +2 more
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Gram-to-Kilogram Scale-Up Synthesis of 2,2’-Diallylbisphenol through a Microchannel Reactor [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2023 A continuous-flow synthetic platform utilizing a microchannel reactor was developed here to realize the gram-to-kilogram scale-up synthesis of 2,2’-diallylbisphenol A (DABPA) via thermal Claisen rearrangement with high efficiency and safety.
Danyang Wan +5 more
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Application and Technique of Liquid Crystal-Based Biosensors
Micromachines, 2020 Liquid crystal biosensors are based on changes in the orientation of liquid crystal molecules induced by specific bonding events of biomolecules. These biosensors are expected to serve as a promising system to detect biomolecules, biomolecular activity ...
Chonglin Luan, Haipei Luan, Dawei Luo
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Three-dimensional solitary waves with electrically tunable direction of propagation in nematics
Nature Communications, 2019 In a previous work, the authors have demonstrated the formation of localized waves in nematic liquid crystals driven by an electric field. Here they demonstrate the realization of solitary waves of (3+2)D type which can be steered along longitudinal and ...
Bing-Xiang Li +4 more
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Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics, 2018 In the present investigation, TiO2-doped weakly polar nematic liquid crystal (NLC) has been studied. This study mainly focuses on dielectric, electro-optical and optical properties of pure NLC and doped systems.
Geeta Yadav +3 more
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Nanocomposites and methods for synthesis and use thereof [PDF]
, 2009 Nanocomposite compositions and methods of synthesis of the compositions are described. In particular, liquid crystal-functionalized nanoparticles, liquid crystal-templated nanoparticles, nanocomposite compositions including the nanoparticles, and ...
Furman, Benjamin R. +3 more
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Electrically driven three-dimensional solitary waves as director bullets in nematic liquid crystals
Nature Communications, 2018 Solitary waves which maintain their shape have many fascinating physical and mathematical properties. Here the authors observe waves trapped along three spatial dimensions in nematic liquid crystals due to an electric field and show that these director ...
Bing-Xiang Li +6 more
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Nature Communications, 2018 The original version of this article contained an error in the description of Supplementary Movie 7, which incorrectly read ‘Collision resulting in annihilation of two solitons. U = 45.1 V, f = 600 Hz, T = 50 °C, d = 8.0 μm. The original movie is taken
Bing-Xiang Li +6 more
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Frontiers in Physics, 2021 One objective of active matter science is to unveil principles by which chaotic microscale dynamics could be transformed into useful work. A nematic liquid crystal environment offers a number of possibilities, one of which is a directional motion of an ...
Mojtaba Rajabi +7 more
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The Freedericksz Transition in a Spatially Varying Magnetic Field
Crystals, 2021 Much is known about the Freedericksz transition induced by uniform electric and magnetic fields in nematic liquid crystals. In this work, we are interested in the effects of a spatially varying field on the transition. Specifically, we study the director
Tianyi Guo +2 more
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