Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2337021
Rohit Kumar, Gajjala Sumana, Amit Choudhary, Seema Sood, Rajesh
{"title":"Liquid crystal assisted optical DNA biosensor for the selective detection of bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae","authors":"Rohit Kumar, Gajjala Sumana, Amit Choudhary, Seema Sood, Rajesh","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2337021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2337021","url":null,"abstract":"A highly selective and sensitive label-free liquid crystal (LC)-based optical DNA biosensor has been reported for the detection of bacterial disease. A sensing platform is constructed using nematic...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615056","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 : 2024-04-16DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2324465
Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga
{"title":"What a twist cell experiment tells about a quartic twist theory for chromonics","authors":"Silvia Paparini, Epifanio G. Virga","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2324465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2324465","url":null,"abstract":"The elastic theory of chromonic liquid crystals is not completely established. We know, for example, that for anomalously low twist constants (needed for chromonics) the classical Oseen-Frank theor...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614517","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 : 2024-04-09DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2333323
J. L. Hobbs, C. J. Gibb, E. Cruickshank, R. Walker, R. J. Mandle
{"title":"Rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals","authors":"J. L. Hobbs, C. J. Gibb, E. Cruickshank, R. Walker, R. J. Mandle","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2333323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2333323","url":null,"abstract":"We present an approach for rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals. We use a simple graphical user interface (GUI) tool that leverages rules-based methods for efficient gener...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561349","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 : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2337030
F. Ciuchi, M. P. de Santo, C. M. Tone, L. R. Evangelista, E. K. Lenzi, R. R. Ribeiro de Almeida, M. P. Rosseto, R. S. Zola
{"title":"Modelling dielectric behaviour and anomalous relaxation in chromonic liquid crystals","authors":"F. Ciuchi, M. P. de Santo, C. M. Tone, L. R. Evangelista, E. K. Lenzi, R. R. Ribeiro de Almeida, M. P. Rosseto, R. S. Zola","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2337030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2337030","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the feasibility of applying a frequency-dependent diffusive model to study the dielectric response of complex fluids. The model considers the effect of free and bound particles by solvin...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561627","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2333318
Mariola Buczkowska
{"title":"Material parameters ensuring stability of the twist-bend nematic phase","authors":"Mariola Buczkowska","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2333318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2333318","url":null,"abstract":"Properties of the theoretical model of the twist-bend nematic phase (NTB) proposed by Barbero et al. were taken into account. In particular, the role of material parameters that determine the free ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561411","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 : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2330555
Rui-Zhe Zhou, Yan Zhang, Ji-Feng Gao, Shuai-Yin Ma, Hong-Shuang Zhang, Xiao-Zhi He
{"title":"Chiral fluorescent liquid crystal polymers containing 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalimide – synthesis and properties","authors":"Rui-Zhe Zhou, Yan Zhang, Ji-Feng Gao, Shuai-Yin Ma, Hong-Shuang Zhang, Xiao-Zhi He","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2330555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2330555","url":null,"abstract":"By introducing two cholesteric liquid crystal monomers with different chain lengths (M1 and M2) and brominated naphthalimide fluorescent monomer (M3) into polymethyl hydrosiloxane, a series of fluo...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298892","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 : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2330561
M. B. Pandey, Dheeraj Kumar Pandey, Surendra Kumar, U. B. Singh, Ravindra Dhar
{"title":"Investigation of thermodynamical, electro-optical and dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystals dispersed with low-concentration barium titanate nanoparticles","authors":"M. B. Pandey, Dheeraj Kumar Pandey, Surendra Kumar, U. B. Singh, Ravindra Dhar","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2330561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2330561","url":null,"abstract":"A liquid crystals nanoparticles composite was prepared by dispersing barium titanate nanoparticles (BT-NPs) into a multi-component liquid crystalline material having wide range room temperature nem...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298710","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 : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2325619
Christoph Klopp, Ralf Stannarius
{"title":"Rupture of thin nematic walls between isotropic droplets of the same mesogenic material","authors":"Christoph Klopp, Ralf Stannarius","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2325619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2325619","url":null,"abstract":"We prepared isotropic droplets surrounded by nematic fringes in smectic A freely suspended films. During their coalescence, a thin nematic film is formed that acts as a barrier and separates the is...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298820","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}
{"title":"Tunable bandpass filter based on epsilon-near-zero metamaterials using liquid crystals","authors":"Huilin Mu, Chang Ding, Tong Yi, Yudeng Wang, Fanyi Meng, Jiafu Wang","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2325573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2325573","url":null,"abstract":"In the article, a design method of tunable bandpass filter based on epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials using liquid crystals (LCs) is proposed. Thanks to the strong and directionally consistent ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298742","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}