Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-28DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2345209
Mariola Buczkowska
{"title":"Electro-optic characteristics of chiral nematic layers deformed by in-plane electric field","authors":"Mariola Buczkowska","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2345209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2345209","url":null,"abstract":"Deformations of twisted and super-twisted layers composed of chiral and nonchiral nematic liquid crystals induced by in-plane electric field were studied numerically. The right-hand twisted structu...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140933128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-28DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2344222
Adrish Chakraborty, Debanjan Bhattacharjee, Ayon Bhattacharjee
{"title":"Insights into the dynamic symphony: a comprehensive computational exploration of pure and fluorinated 6O.6 liquid crystals with the help of DFT analysis","authors":"Adrish Chakraborty, Debanjan Bhattacharjee, Ayon Bhattacharjee","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2344222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2344222","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on the Density Functional Theory (DFT) simulations approach to examine the structural and vibrational behaviour of pure 6O.6 and fluorinated 6O.6 liquid crystalline compounds....","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-28DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2345214
A. Adaka, P. Guragain, K. Perera, P. Nepal, B. Almatani, S. Sprunt, J. Gleeson, R. J. Twieg, A. Jákli
{"title":"A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal vitrified at room temperature","authors":"A. Adaka, P. Guragain, K. Perera, P. Nepal, B. Almatani, S. Sprunt, J. Gleeson, R. J. Twieg, A. Jákli","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2345214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2345214","url":null,"abstract":"Most of the current highly polar rod-shaped molecules that form ferroelectric nematic (NF) phase do so only at elevated temperatures and multicomponent mixtures are generally needed to obtain a bro...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141516180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-28DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2345237
Wenbo Yin, Yuzhen Zhao, Xiangke Jiao, Hong Gao, Yang Zhao, Dong Wang, Yi Luan, Zongcheng Miao
{"title":"Intelligent switchable nanomaterials doped optical switches with PDLC-PVA-PSCLC bilayer liquid crystal structure for smart windows","authors":"Wenbo Yin, Yuzhen Zhao, Xiangke Jiao, Hong Gao, Yang Zhao, Dong Wang, Yi Luan, Zongcheng Miao","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2345237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2345237","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the ability to switch between transparent and light scattering states, polymer dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC) and polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystals (PSCLC) are widely used in ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141516176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-21DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2324338
Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray
{"title":"A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles","authors":"Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2324338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2324338","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we model the configurations of a system of hard rods by viewing each rod in a cell formed by its neighbours. By minimising the free energy in the model and performing molecular dynam...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140634379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2334342
Ahlam F Alshammari, Amerigo Zattarin, Abigail Pearson, Ewan Cruickshank, Magdalena Majewska, Damian Pociecha, John MD Storey, Ewa Gorecka, Corrie T. Imrie, Rebecca Walker
{"title":"Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O.m and CB8O.m series","authors":"Ahlam F Alshammari, Amerigo Zattarin, Abigail Pearson, Ewan Cruickshank, Magdalena Majewska, Damian Pociecha, John MD Storey, Ewa Gorecka, Corrie T. Imrie, Rebecca Walker","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2334342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2334342","url":null,"abstract":"The synthesis and characterisation of two series of nonsymmetric dimers belonging to the family of compounds, the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-ω-(4-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)alkanes (CBnO.m) is r...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140630756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2341860
René Wittmann
{"title":"Layer topology of smectic grain boundaries","authors":"René Wittmann","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2341860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2341860","url":null,"abstract":"Grain boundaries in extremely confined colloidal smectics possess a topological fine structure with coexisting nematic and tetratic symmetry of the director field. An alternative way to approach th...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2339918
Ankita Sutar, Prathmesh Sarnaik, Swapnil Doke, M. Abdul Haque, Shital Kahane
{"title":"Exploring the electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystal through incorporation of ZnCuGaS2 core/shell quantum dots","authors":"Ankita Sutar, Prathmesh Sarnaik, Swapnil Doke, M. Abdul Haque, Shital Kahane","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2339918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2339918","url":null,"abstract":"The current study focuses on elucidating the interaction mechanisms between ZnCuGaS2 quantum dots (QDs) and nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) (5CB), intending to comprehend how this interaction leads ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2339913
Ivan I. Yakovkin, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Timothy J. Bunning, Dean R. Evans
{"title":"Tunable THz absorbers based on LC-tuned Yagi-Uda antennas","authors":"Ivan I. Yakovkin, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Timothy J. Bunning, Dean R. Evans","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2339913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2339913","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the structural configuration of Yagi-Uda micro-antenna arrays, the resonant properties of which are tunable through nematic liquid crystals in the terahertz spectral region. Reo...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-17DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2339903
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Saranrat Asamo, Asmita Shah, Bhavna Pal, Pongthep Prajongtat, Patrick Ropa, Benoit Duponchel, Michael Depriester
{"title":"5CB molecular dynamics on TiO2-coated planar aligned ITO electrodes","authors":"Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Saranrat Asamo, Asmita Shah, Bhavna Pal, Pongthep Prajongtat, Patrick Ropa, Benoit Duponchel, Michael Depriester","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2339903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2339903","url":null,"abstract":"5CB liquid crystal (LC) is a well-studied material for a variety of applications due to its orientational ordering and viscosity. LCs mostly suffer from ionic impurities which can be filtered using...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}