Since ancient times, plasmonic structural coloring has inspired humanity; glassmakers
achieved vibrant colors by doping glass with metal nanoparticles to craft beautiful objects …

Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

Bent-core (BC) materials that form nematic liquid crystals (BC nematics (BCNs)) are known
only since 2000, but since then they have been intensively studied. In this review we give a …

Considerable progress has been achieved in understanding the fascinating structure and
physical properties of the ferroelectric liquid crystalline phases formed by bent-core liquid …

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the
latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens …

We report an induction of the blue phase III (BPIII) at a relatively low and wide (over 20° C)
temperature range in nematogenic achiral bent-core liquid crystals doped with a high …

Chirality in a mixture system consisting of bent-core 1, 3-phenylene bis [4-(4− 8-
alkoxyphenyliminomethyl) benzoates](P8-O-PIMB) and rod-like n-pentyl-cyanobiphenyl …

Dielectric spectroscopy measurements have been performed on a bent-core nematic liquid
crystal and on its binary mixtures with a calamitic nematic. We have detected more …

Liquid crystal (LC)-based biological sensors permit the study of aqueous biological samples
without the need for the labeling of biological species with fluorescent dyes (which can be …

Langmuir films of bent-core molecules at the air/water interface are transferred onto a solid
surface by the inverse-Langmuir-Schaefer (ILS) technique. Previous work by the authors …