Liquid CrystalsPub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2319626
Christopher Schilling, Anna Zens, Sabine Laschat
{"title":"Novel liquid crystalline fluorene and fluorenone MIDA boronates: influence of alkyl vs alkoxy side chains on the mesomorphic properties","authors":"Christopher Schilling, Anna Zens, Sabine Laschat","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2319626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2319626","url":null,"abstract":"To obtain novel boron liquid crystals, we successfully combined MIDA boronates with chromophoric fluorene and fluorenone mesogenic units and studied the influence of alkoxy versus alkyl side chains...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139981192","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 : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2310611
Piotr Kubala, Michał Cieśla
{"title":"Inderdigitation, double twist, and topological defects in a system of hard lollipops","authors":"Piotr Kubala, Michał Cieśla","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2310611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2310611","url":null,"abstract":"Using hard particle Monte Carlo simulations, we studied a three-dimensional system consisting of identical, lollipop-like particles. Each lollipop was built of five identical, tangent balls placed ...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"178 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946123","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 : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2321474
Xin-Yu Zhang, Min Liu, Fang-Yuan Li, Meng-Shu Li, Wen-Xiu Wang, Dan-Shu Yao, Mei Tian
{"title":"The influence of the side-arms structure on the properties of the liquid crystal dimers centred on mandelic acid","authors":"Xin-Yu Zhang, Min Liu, Fang-Yuan Li, Meng-Shu Li, Wen-Xiu Wang, Dan-Shu Yao, Mei Tian","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2321474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2321474","url":null,"abstract":"With mandelic acid (MA) as the chiral core, two series of non-symmetric liquid crystal (LC) dimers have been synthesised by changing the rigidity of the side-arms, namely the DBM-nC2B series and th...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"178 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946106","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 : 2024-02-23DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2319631
Sagar K. Bairwa, Srujal A. Sonera, R. C. Tandel
{"title":"Mesomorphic behaviour and photoluminescence study of novel homologous series of Schiff’s base derived from cholesteryl carbonate and thiadiazole moiety","authors":"Sagar K. Bairwa, Srujal A. Sonera, R. C. Tandel","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2319631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2319631","url":null,"abstract":"The steroidal derivatives are widely known for their ability to display a variety of mesophases, including frustrated phases, depending on the structure of the steroidal skeleton and the substituen...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139946122","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":"Mechano-chemical synthesis of liquid crystal materials: an easy method towards fast, simple and almost solvent-free molecular screening","authors":"Hiroya Nishikawa, Dennins Kwaria, Motonobu Kuwayama, Atsuko Nihonyanagi, Fumito Araoka","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2319629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2319629","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides guidance for the rapid, simple, and eco-friendly synthesis of liquid crystal (LC) molecules using the hot-trend mechanochemical (MC) synthesis in the community of organic synthe...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139922090","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 : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2313003
Abu Kausar Nasir, Muklesur Rahman
{"title":"Cybotactic nematic liquid crystal – an overview","authors":"Abu Kausar Nasir, Muklesur Rahman","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2313003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2313003","url":null,"abstract":"The recent identification of ferroelectricity within the nematic phase of liquid crystals has triggered significant interest. However, prior to this discovery; the potential existence of ferroelect...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910042","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 : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2314617
Xinqiao Tang, Huiji Hu, Zhe Qu, Fan-Bao Meng, Jiwei Wang
{"title":"Liquid crystallinity and magnetorheological performance of polymeric liquid crystal magnetic composites","authors":"Xinqiao Tang, Huiji Hu, Zhe Qu, Fan-Bao Meng, Jiwei Wang","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2314617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2314617","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetorheological fluids (MRF) are regarded as a novel ‘intelligent’ material because they show the ability to respond to external stimuli. However, with the extension of working time, the agglome...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755508","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 : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2306323
Shallu Dhingra, Santanu Kumar Pal
{"title":"Advances in 4-cyanobiphenyl tethered discotic oligomers and supermolecular liquid crystalline materials","authors":"Shallu Dhingra, Santanu Kumar Pal","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2306323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2306323","url":null,"abstract":"A novel family of rod-like liquid crystals designed by Prof. G.W. Gray having nematic phase has been extensively used to make stable informative liquid crystal displays. These 4’-alkyl- and 4’-alko...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772870","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 : 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2024.2313023
Federica Ciuchi, Maria Penelope De Santo, Silvia Paparini, Lorenza Spina, Epifanio G. Virga
{"title":"Inversion ring in chromonic twisted hedgehogs: theory and experiment","authors":"Federica Ciuchi, Maria Penelope De Santo, Silvia Paparini, Lorenza Spina, Epifanio G. Virga","doi":"10.1080/02678292.2024.2313023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2024.2313023","url":null,"abstract":"Twisted hedgehogs are defects in spherical cavities with homeotropic anchoring for the nematic director that arise when twist distortions are sufficiently less energetic than splay (and bend) disto...","PeriodicalId":18011,"journal":{"name":"Liquid Crystals","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755367","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}