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

Smectic liquid crystals exhibit a remarkable ability to self-organize into a variety of textures,
patterns, and arrays extending over large surface areas with microscale periodicity. These …

A phenomenological free energy model is proposed to describe the behavior of smectic
liquid crystals, an intermediate phase that exhibits orientational order and layering at the …

Matter self-assembling into layers generates unique properties, including structures of
stacked surfaces, directed transport, and compact area maximization that can be highly …

Composed of microscopic layers that stack along one direction while maintaining fluid-like
positional disorder within layers, smectics are excellent systems for exploring topology …

摘要液晶独特的取向序和位置序为其带来奇特的物理性质, 使其在凝聚态软物质中占据了重要的
地位. 由于液晶有序结构中连续对称性的破缺, 引入了拓扑缺陷. 而拓扑缺陷在相变过程中的转变 …

Electrospinning is a powerful and promising technique in production of nano-materials
namely nano-fibers. Nano-sized materials show properties apart from their macroscopic/bulk …

Liquid crystal films play a key role in advancing next-generation optical and photonic
devices that require a precise in-plane modulation of optical anisotropy. This study employs …

We present that high birefringent nematic liquid crystal, 4–n–pentyl–4'–cyanobiphenyl, was
incorporated into the polyacrylonitrile precursor which has a strong polar cyano group so as …

Liquid crystals can self-organize into a layered smectic phase. While the smectic layers are
typically straight, forming a lamellar pattern in bulk, external confinement may drastically …