Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

This article reviews the complex ordered structures induced by chirality in liquid crystals. In
general, chirality favours a twist in the orientation of liquid-crystal molecules. In some cases …

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 …

In this article, we probe the formation of liquid crystal and soft crystal phases as a
consequence of minimising the free volume of the system either through design engineering …

Based on graduate lectures given by the authors, Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals:
Concepts and Physical Properties Illustrated by Experiments examines lamellar (smectic) …

The recently discovered orthorhombic liquid crystal (LC) phase of symmetry Fddd is proving
to be widespread. In this work, a chiral hydroxybutyrate linkage is inserted into the molecular …

Liquid crystals (LCs) of pristine graphene oxide (GO), a kind of novel two-dimensional (2D)
macromolecule, have been discovered recently, opening an avenue to high performance …

Liquid crystals (LCs) represent a challenging group of materials for direct transmission
electron microscopy (TEM) studies due to the complications in specimen preparation and …

We have used freeze-fracture electron microscopy and static light scattering to study the
conformations of two-dimensional sheets of graphitic oxide suspended in aqueous solution …

We report the first experimental observation of the commensurate state of the recently
discovered helical smectic-C phase. The projection of the reciprocal lattice on the plane …