Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Multimodal-responsive circularly polarized luminescence security materials

Q Guo, M Zhang, Z Tong, S Zhao, Y Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nations, industries, and aspects of everyday life have undergone forgery and counterfeiting
ever since the emergence of commercialization. Securing documents and products with …

Graphene-based chiral liquid crystal materials for optical applications

F Zhai, Y Feng, K Zhou, L Wang, Z Zheng… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This review describes the latest research progress on graphene-based chiral liquid crystal
(GBCLC) materials. Colloidal graphene chiral liquid crystals and graphene/chiral liquid …

Polarisation-driven magneto-optical and nonlinear-optical behaviour of a room-temperature ferroelectric nematic phase

E Zavvou, M Klasen-Memmer, A Manabe, M Bremer… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nematics with a broken polar symmetry are one of the fascinating recent discoveries in the
field of soft matter. High spontaneous polarisation and the fluidity of the ferroelectric nematic …

Soft matter from liquid crystals

YK Kim, JH Noh, K Nayani, NL Abbott - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid crystals (LCs) are fluids within which molecules exhibit long-range orientational
order, leading to anisotropic properties such as optical birefringence and curvature elasticity …

From forces to assemblies: van der Waals forces-driven assemblies in anisotropic quasi-2D graphene and quasi-1D nanocellulose heterointerfaces towards quasi-3D …

A Brakat, H Zhu - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the pursuit of advanced functional materials, the role of low-dimensional van der Waals
(vdW) heterointerfaces has recently ignited noteworthy scientific interest, particularly in …

Amplifying inorganic chirality using liquid crystals

M Zhang, Y Wang, Y Zhou, H Yuan, Q Guo, T Zhuang - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral inorganic nanostructures have drawn extensive attention thanks to their unique
physical properties as well as multidisciplinary applications. Amplifying inorganic chirality …

Amplification of elementary surface reaction steps on transition metal surfaces using liquid crystals: dissociative adsorption and dehydrogenation

H Yu, T Szilvási, K Wang, JI Gold, N Bao… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Elementary reaction steps, including adsorption and dissociation, of a range of molecular
adsorbates on transition metal surfaces have been elucidated in the context of chemical …

An “In Vivo Self-assembly” Strategy for Constructing Superstructures for Biomedical Applications

MZ Zhao, DB Cheng, ZR Shang, L Wang… - Chinese Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
The interfacing study of biopolymer and supramolecular chemistry enables a better
understanding of fundamental biochemical processes and the creating of new high …

Colloid and Interface Science of Liquid Crystals

X Wang, A Tripathi, F Mukherjee… - One Hundred Years of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This chapter explores recent advances in colloid and interfacial phenomena involving liquid
crystals (LCs). In comparison to studies of colloids and interfaces with isotropic solvents, the …