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Liquid Crystals Templating

Crystals, 2020
Liquid crystal templating is a versatile technique to create novel organic and inorganic materials with nanoscale features. It exploits the self-assembled architectures of liquid crystal phases as scaffolds.
Mamatha Nagaraj
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Liquid-crystalline behavior on dumbbell-shaped colloids and the observation of chiral blue phases

Nature Communications, 2022
Colloidal liquid crystals account for various applications due to the combination of characteristics relevant for liquid crystals and colloids. The authors elaborate the impact of concave geometry on the properties of colloidal liquid crystals for ...
Guangdong Chen, Hanwen Pei, Xuefei Zhang, Wei Shi, Mingjie Liu, Charl F. J. Faul, Bai Yang, Yan Zhao, Kun Liu, Zhongyuan Lu, Zhihong Nie, Yang Yang   +11 more
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Function spaces for liquid crystals [PDF]

, 2014
We consider the relationship between three continuum liquid crystal theories: Oseen-Frank, Ericksen and Landau-de Gennes. It is known that the function space is an important part of the mathematical model and by considering various function space choices
Bedford, S. J.
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Transmissive Multilayer Geometric Phase Gratings Using Water-Soluble Alignment Material

Crystals
Multilayer liquid crystal devices can offer enhanced optical functionalities for augmented reality and photonic applications, but fabrication remains severely limited by solvent incompatibility between photoalignment materials and underlying polymerized ...
Fatemeh Abbasi, Kristiaan Neyts, Inge Nys, Jeroen Beeckman   +3 more
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Chirality amplification by desymmetrization of chiral ligand-capped nanoparticles to nanorods quantified in soft condensed matter

Nature Communications, 2018
The mechanisms by which molecular chirality is amplified through space and across length scales is of great interest. Here the authors show how gold nanorods covered in chiral dopants are more efficient in transducing chiral information compared to other
Ahlam Nemati, Sasan Shadpour, Lara Querciagrossa, Lin Li, Taizo Mori, Min Gao, Claudio Zannoni, Torsten Hegmann   +7 more
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Pixelated Photonic Crystals

Advanced Photonics Research, 2023
Photonic crystals can prevent or allow light of certain frequencies to propagate in distinct directions in anomalous and useful ways for use as waveguides, laser cavities, and topological light propagation.
Urban Mur, Miha Ravnik
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Optical Multiplexing Anti-Counterfeiting Film Based on Self-Assembled and Holography Lithographic Photonic Architectures

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022
Multiplexing anti-counterfeiting technologies based on micro/nano structural colors of photonic crystals have been proposed for information security because of unduplicability and diversity.
Xiaowan Xu, Yanjun Liu, Dan Luo
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Phase Behavior and Ionic Conductivity of Blended, Ion-Condensed Electrolytes with Ordered Morphologies

Applied Sciences, 2022
In this study, the amphiphilic salt lithium trifluoromethanesulfonylimide octadecane (C18LiTFSI) was used as a basis to investigate the effects of anion density and cation coordination sites within blended electrolytes with strong ionic aggregation ...
Hannah Collins, Jiacheng Liu, Lingyu Yang, Jennifer L. Schaefer   +3 more
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Nematic liquid crystal devices with sub-millisecond response time [PDF]

, 2014
Conventional nematic liquid crystal devices exhibit switching times that are in the order of several milliseconds. In this work we focus on two types of nematic liquid crystals that can overcome the limitations of conventional nematic liquid crystals and
Beeckman, Jeroen, Chojnowska, Olga, Dabrowski, Roman, Mangelinckx, Glenn, Mohammadimasoudi, Mohammad, Neyts, Kristiaan   +5 more
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Order and Frustration in Chiral Liquid Crystals [PDF]

, 2000
This paper reviews the complex ordered structures induced by chirality in liquid crystals. In general, chirality favors a twist in the orientation of liquid-crystal molecules. In some cases, as in the cholesteric phase, this favored twist can be achieved
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