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Liquid Crystals: Versatile Self-Organized Smart Soft Materials.
Chemical Reviews, 2021Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) owing to their responsive and adaptive attributes could serve as ...
H. Bisoyi, Quan Li
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Modelling and computation of liquid crystals
Acta Numerica, 2021Liquid crystals are a type of soft matter that is intermediate between crystalline solids and isotropic fluids. The study of liquid crystals has made tremendous progress over the past four decades, which is of great importance for fundamental scientific ...
Wen Wang, Lei Zhang, Pingwen Zhang
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Functional Ionic Liquid Crystals.
Langmuir, 2020Ionic liquid crystals have emerged as a new class of functional soft materials in the last two decades, which exhibit synergistic characteristics of ionic liquids and liquid crystals, such as (1) macroscopic orientability, (2) miscibility with various ...
Krishnachary Salikolimi +2 more
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Liquids, Crystals and Liquid Crystals
Physics Today, 1989In thinking about the states of condensed matter, we usually consider two extremes. At one extreme are crystalline solids, in which atoms form a perfectly periodic array that extends to infinity in three directions. At the other extreme are fluids or glasses, in which the atoms or molecules are completely disordered and the system is both ...
Joel D. Brock +3 more
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Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals by Liquid Crystals
Physical Review Letters, 2000We observed light-induced alignment of the nematic liquid crystal, 4, 4(')-n-pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB), on a fused quartz. Irradiation of the adsorbed layer with polarized ultraviolet light produced homogeneous alignment in a 5CB-filled liquid crystal cell with the easy orientation axis perpendicular to the polarization direction.
, Reznikov +7 more
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Liquid Crystals Align Liquid Crystals
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2002We have investigated the molecular orientation of a liquid crystal (LC), pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB), evaporated on a rubbed polymer by means of polarized ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy and surface second-harmonic generation. The results unambiguously reveal that the in-plane anisotropy is diminishingly small before the molecules form a monolayer ...
T. Shioda +6 more
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Two-dimensional skyrmion bags in liquid crystals and ferromagnets
Nature Physics, 2019Reconfigurable, ordered matter offers great potential for future low-power computer memory by storing information in energetically stable configurations.
D. Foster +5 more
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From colloids in liquid crystals to colloidal liquid crystals
Liquid crystals (Print), 2019Liquid crystals in combination with nanoparticles are a fascinating topic of research, because of the wealth of aspects and questions to study. These range from simple effects of nanoparticles on phase transitions and phase diagrams, to the tuning of ...
I. Dierking
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Lab Chip, 2013
We report a dielectrically actuated liquid crystal (LC) pump. A small volume of LC forms a pillar-like droplet in a cylindrical hole which partially touches the bottom substrate with embedded interdigitated electrodes. By applying a voltage, the LC droplet can be largely stretched along the electrode direction by the generated dielectric force, which ...
Ren, Hongwen, Xu, Su, Wu, Shin Tson
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We report a dielectrically actuated liquid crystal (LC) pump. A small volume of LC forms a pillar-like droplet in a cylindrical hole which partially touches the bottom substrate with embedded interdigitated electrodes. By applying a voltage, the LC droplet can be largely stretched along the electrode direction by the generated dielectric force, which ...
Ren, Hongwen, Xu, Su, Wu, Shin Tson
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