Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

Effects of the presence of rhamnose (RH) sugar in the bulk phase on the interfacial
properties of rhamnolipids (RL) are investigated in this work. Rhamnolipid compositions …

Lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) are a type of self-assemblies formed on the dissolution of
amphiphilic molecules in a suitable solvent often water, within a certain concentration range …

Formation of the cholesteric phase in aqueous lyotropic liquid crystals doped with cellulose
derivatives has been studied utilizing hot stage polarized microscopy. Three ionic …

This chapter presents a comprehensive review of rheological theory, modeling, and
simulation of surfactant nematic liquid crystalline phases, including calamitic and discotic …

Liquid crystals are a soft condensed matter phase that share properties with both isotropic
liquids and crystalline solids. Composite materials formed from both low molecular weight …

We report the thermotropic properties and measurements of the temperature and
concentration dependences of the refractive index in isotropic micellar L 1 phase and …

We report the phase states in dodecyltrimethyl ammonium bromide/water (DDTMABr–H2O)
lyotropic liquid crystalline system. The temperature-concentration phase diagram of this …

Structural peculiarities of the rod-like micelles in the nematic-calamitic (NC) and disc-like
micelles in the nematic-discotic (ND) lyotropic mesophases have been investigated …

This chapter presents a review of different liquid crystal phases. The main attention is paid to
the thermotropic liquid crystals, which manifest rich polymorphism upon variation of …