The effects of solute molecular structure (size, shape and flexibility) and solvent molecular
structure (length‐to‐breadth ratio and end‐chain flexibility) on nematic phase stability in …

The paper by Yu and Saupe on the first biaxial nematic phase created excitement for a
number of reasons. Some theories of biaxial phases already existed, but experimental …

The neat phases of a series of quaternary ammonium halides based on trioctadecylamine
have been investigated by optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, and H NMR …

Lyotropic nematic textures are investigated, by image processing, near the reentrant
isotropic (IRE)–discotic nematic (ND)–biaxial nematic (NB)–clamitic nematic (NC)–isotropic …

We investigated solvent-solute effects using dye-doped nematic liquid crystals (NLCs)
where three Sudan dyes of different concentrations were used as solutes doped into high …

Blue phase (BP) stability is dependent upon chemical structure as well as the physical
properties of the chiral nematic liquid-crystal (LC) mixture. In this study, the dependence of …

The lyotropic ternary mixture of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTMABr), 1-dodecanol
(DDeOH) and water (H 2 O) was studied by optical conoscopy and Abbe refractometer …

The factors which govern the stability of lyotropic amphiphilic nematic phases are delineated
and then used to design mesogens which give rise to stable NC and ND phases on …

Binary mixtures of nematic 5CB with some kind of non-mesomorphic solutes were found to
cause the increase in nematic-isotropic transition temperature, contrary to usually observed …

The order parameters of some dichroic fluorescent dyes {derivatives of 4-amino-N-
ethylnaphthalimide} in three nematic liquid crystal mixtures (W52, E7 and ZLI 2359) have …