The presence of ions in liquid crystals is one of the grand challenges that hinder the
application of liquid crystals in various devices, which include advanced 3-D and flexible …

The dispersion of ferroelectric nanomaterials in liquid crystals has recently emerged as a
promising way for the design of advanced and tunable electro-optical materials. The goal of …

Magic-sized clusters (MSCs) are renowned for their identical size and closed-shell stability
that inhibit conventional nanoparticle (NP) growth processes. Though MSCs have been of …

Dispersing nanomaterials in liquid crystals has emerged as a very promising non-synthetic
way to produce advanced multifunctional and tunable materials. As a rule, dielectric and …

Lasers are now extensively used in a multitude of optical devices and photonic systems
spanning from sensing, communication, entertainment, medical surgery to military …

New 10 laterally chloro azopyridine-based derivatives, with terminal alkoxy chain length
varies between 6 and 16 carbons, were prepared. The mesophase behaviour was …

Stimuli-responsive soft matters have been recognised by many scientists and engineers as
very important because of their inherent characteristics in response to environmental …

The thermotropic phase behavior of ionic liquids and ionic liquid crystals based on novel N-
alkyl-3-methylpyridinium halides, trihalides and dichloroiodates was experimentally studied …

In the present investigation, TiO 2-doped weakly polar nematic liquid crystal (NLC) has been
studied. This study mainly focuses on dielectric, electro-optical and optical properties of pure …

Future disruptive photonics technologies depend on the development of new types of
nonlinear-optical glass composites containing nanoparticles. In this paper, we report the …