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 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 …

Liquid crystal is a state of matter being intermediate between solid and liquid. Liquid crystal
materials exhibit both orientational order and fluidity. While liquid crystals have long been …

Liquid crystals formed by the self-assembly of small molecules are very promising smart
materials because of their unique properties, such as self-assembled multivalency …

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 …

Lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) networks are nanoporous polymer materials formed by the in
situ cross-linking of reactive amphiphiles (ie, surfactants) that self-organize in water or other …

To exploit the potential of Didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (D 12 DAB) as a core
lipidic constituent, an attempt was made to fabricate and optimize cationic nanostructured …

Conspectus Bioinspired organic/inorganic synthetic composites have been studied as high-
performance and functional materials. In nature, biominerals such as pearls, teeth, and …