Liquid crystals (LCs) are nanophotonic materials which can interact with light in the
molecular scale. While the LCs are widely used in various displays, last decade has …

Despite the rapid progress in peptide liquid crystals (LCs) due to their prominent properties,
our investigation on flexible peptide-based LCs is incomplete, mainly resulted from their …

Rational design of thermotropic liquid crystal (LC)-based sensors utilizing different
mesophases holds great promise to open up novel detection modalities for various chemical …

With growth of interest in functional materials possessing highly organized and well-defined
nanostructures, lyotropic mesophases have received much attention. Amphiphiles and …

Micrometer-scale droplets of thermotropic liquid crystals (LCs) suspended in aqueous media
can act as exquisitely sensitive reporters of environmental analytes.[1–8] Aqueous …

Liquid crystal (LC)-based biological sensors permit the study of aqueous biological samples
without the need for the labeling of biological species with fluorescent dyes (which can be …

The ordered environment presented by liquid crystals at interfaces enables a range of novel
functionalities that is only now beginning to be exploited in applications ranging from light …

The dynamics of water confined to nanometer-sized domains is important in a variety of
applications ranging from proton exchange membranes to crowding effects in biophysics. In …

Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state in 1888, liquid crystal science has made
great advances through fusion with various technologies and disciplines. Recently, new …

Water molecules present inside the lipid-based cubic liquid crystalline phases are found to
play a major role in wide range of applications, such as protein crystallization, virus …