Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …

Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) materials are of interest both for their potential in
display technology and the fascinating science found in liquid crystals confined to small …

We review the current state of knowledge of phase separation and phase equilibria in
porous materials. Our emphasis is on fundamental studies of simple fluids (composed of …

We present a review of experimental, theoretical, and molecular simulation studies of
confinement effects on freezing and melting. We consider both simple and more complex …

Mixing model colloidal particles with a thermotropic nematic liquid crystal results in a soft
solid with significant storage modulus (G′∼ 10 3− 10 5 Pa). The soft solid comprises a …

High-resolution calorimetric studies have been made of the liquid crystal phase transitions
for several dispersions of 70-Å-diam silica spheres (aerosil) in octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) as …

As a simplified model of randomly pinned vortex lattices or charge-density waves, we study
the random-field XY model on square (d= 2) and simple cubic (d= 3) lattices. We verify in …

The following sections are included: INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
PDLC MATERIALS PREPARATION Polymerization induced phase separation (PIPS) …

Orientational ordering is key to functional materials with switching capability, such as
nematic liquid crystals and ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials. We explored the …

We present a calorimetric study of the phase behavior of octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid
crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass (CPG). We used CPG matrices with characteristic …