Liquid-crystalline physical gels

T Kato, Y Hirai, S Nakaso, M Moriyama - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid-crystalline (LC) physical gels are a new class of dynamically functional materials
consisting of liquid crystals and fibrous aggregates of molecules that are called “gelators”. Liquid-…

Fast and High‐Contrast Electro‐optical Switching of LiquidCrystalline Physical Gels: Formation of Oriented Microphase‐Separated Structures

N Mizoshita, K Hanabusa, T Kato - Advanced Functional …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… Functional physical gels were prepared by the gelation of … for the design of functional physical
gels before our studies. … crystals, resulting in liquid-crystalline (LC) physical gels.[11ą15] In …

Enhanced hole‐transporting behavior of discotic liquidcrystalline physical gels

Y Hirai, H Monobe, N Mizoshita… - Advanced Functional …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… transport in the smectic chemical gels.[24] Liquid-crystalline physical gels are a new
class of … gelators,[13–20] while normal gels consist of common organic solvents and self-assembled …

Self‐Aggregation of an Amino Acid Derivative in a LiquidCrystalline Physical Gel—Faster Response to Electric Fields

N Mizoshita, K Hanabusa, T Kato - Advanced Materials, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… Although liquid-crystalline chemical gels have been prepared by the dispersion of … physical
gel had been reported until we recently showed that liquid-crystalline physical gels were …

Liquid-crystalline physical gels: self-aggregation of a gluconamide derivative in mesogenic molecules for the formation of anisotropic functional composites

K Yabuuchi, AE Rowan, RJM Nolte… - Chemistry of …, 2000 - ACS Publications
… In the present paper, we report the formation of liquid-crystalline physical gels by the self-aggregation
of GA8 through intermolecular hydrogen bonding in the mesogenic molecules, …

Anisotropic self-aggregation of an anthracene derivative: Formation of liquid-crystalline physical gels in oriented states

T Kato, T Kutsuna, K Yabuuchi, N Mizoshita - Langmuir, 2002 - ACS Publications
… have been induced for nematic liquid-crystalline (LC) physical gels in twisted nematic cells.
… been observed for discotic LC physical gels. Thus, the LC physical gels can be regarded as …

Electrooptical properties of liquid-crystalline physical gels: a new oligo (amino acid) gelator for light scattering display materials

N Mizoshita, Y Suzuki, K Kishimoto… - Journal of Materials …, 2002 - pubs.rsc.org
… Nematic liquid-crystalline (LC) physical gels suitable for light scattering electrooptical
displays have been prepared from a nematic liquid crystal and a low molecular weight gelator …

Photoresponsive anisotropic soft solids: liquidcrystalline physical gels based on a chiral photochromic gelator

M Moriyama, N Mizoshita, T Yokota… - Advanced …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
… the physical gels of common organic solvents, can be induced by the light stimuli. Here, we
report that photoresponsive LC physical gels ex… changes between two different LC gel states; …

High performance liquid crystalline physical gels prepared by side chain liquid crystalline polymers

J Zhao, Y Yuan, L Chen, Y Li, H Zhang - Polymer, 2018 - Elsevier
… The results show that only P0ACB can form stable liquid crystalline physical gels in 5CB
and show excellent thermal stability, good self-supporting ability and fast electro-optical …

High modulus and low-voltage driving nematic liquid-crystalline physical gels for light-scattering displays

S Bi, H Peng, S Long, M Ni, Y Liao, Y Yang, Z Xue… - Soft Matter, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid-crystalline (LC) physical gels with a high modulus and low driving voltage were …
The phase transition temperature, mechanical and electro-optical properties of three LC gels