The behaviour of the anisotropic electrical conductivity of liquid crystal–gold nanoparticle
(LC‐GNP) composites consisting of a commercially available room temperature nematic …

Confined samples of liquid crystals are characterized by a variety of topological defects and
can be exposed to external constraints such as extreme confinements with nontrivial …

This chapter reviews the experimental findings that help determine the critical properties of
the isotropic-to-nematic transition in side-chain and main-chain liquid single-crystal …

Series of novel star-shaped liquid crystals containing [1, 1ʹ-biphenyl]-4, 4ʹ-diyl
diisonicotinate mesogens with various counterions (Br−, B-SO3−, C-SO3−, H2PO4−, BF4−) …

The E7 Nematic liquid crystal (NLC) doped with Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have been
obtanied by bottom-up approaches to improve thermodynamics and electrochemical …

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), CNT@ Fe 3 O 4, and Fe 3 O 4 nanocomposites
were doped to eutectic uniaxial nematic liquid crystal (NLC's)(E 5CN7) to improve …

A carboxyl functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT-COOH) was doped to
eutectic E 5CN7 mixtures of pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB) and heptylcyanobiphenyl (7CB) …

The impact of magnetic nanoparticles with different surface coating upon the isotropic-to-
nematic and nematic-to-smectic-A phase transitions of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl …

4-n-octyl-4-cyanobiphenyl has been recently shown to display an unusual sequence of
phases when confined into porous silicon (PSi). The gradual increase of oriented short …

The ability of disorder to reduce the coupling between the distortion and tilt angle order
parameters was tested over the RI− RV phase transition by measuring the specific heat in …