As a typical representative of dopants, organic functional dyes have demonstrated their
significant roles in novel smart liquid crystal (LC) devices, and dye‐doped LCs have also …

ABSTRACT A homologues series of 12 new asymmetric fluorinated azobenzene-Schiff
Bases, 2-((E)-(3-chloro-4-fluorophenyl) diazenyl)-5-(((E)-arylidene) amino) anilines (Aa-l) of …

Topological defects and defect phases of rigid and flexibly bent-shaped liquid crystals are
reviewed with emphasis on how they are affected by the departure of molecular shapes from …

Morphogenesis is a hierarchical phenomenon that produces various macroscopic structures
in living organisms, with high reproducibility. This study demonstrates that such structural …

The synthesis and characterisation of a new set of azobenzene-based non-symmetric liquid
crystal dimers, the 1-(4-substitutedazobenzene-4ʹ-yloxy)-6-(4-methoxybiphenyl-4ʹ-yl) …

Two homologous series of sulfur-containing thioether-linked 4-cyanoazobenzene-based
liquid crystal (LC) dimers were developed: a symmetric series based on 4 …

In this paper, a series of novel liquid crystal units (ASE-n, n= 4, 6, 8) of azo Schiff bases with
sulphonic acid (-SO3H) as terminal substituents and different alkyl chain lengths were …

Experimental studies of the structure of plano-convex lens shaped liquid crystal droplets
subjected to electric fields are presented. Similar to previous observations by Salamon et …

Twenty four different homologues of the formula 4-alkoxy phenylazo phenyl 4ʹ-(4''-
alkoxyphenylazo) benzoates (I m/n) were prepared and investigated for their mesophase …

Recently, plano-convex spherical lens-shaped liquid crystal (LC) sessile droplets with
positive dielectric anisotropy were studied in magnetic and/or AC electric fields. Here, we …