Perspectives in liquid-crystal-aided nanotechnology and nanoscience

Y Shen, I Dierking - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

Recent advances on semiconducting nanomaterials–ferroelectric liquid crystals nanocomposites

A Kumar, H Meena, J Prakash, L Wang… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) possess excellent electro-optical properties compared to
nematic liquid crystals (LCs) including lower threshold voltage, faster switching response …

Enhanced electro-optical properties of a nematic liquid crystals in presence of BaTiO3 nanoparticles

UB Singh, R Dhar, R Dabrowski, MB Pandey - Liquid Crystals, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Composites of nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) and ferroelectric barium titanate (BaTiO3)
nanoparticles (NPs) have been prepared. The alignments of NPs in the host medium have …

Nanoparticle-induced property changes in nematic liquid crystals

N Brouckaert, N Podoliak, T Orlova, D Bankova… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Doping liquid crystals with nanoparticles is a widely accepted method to enhance liquid
crystal's intrinsic properties. In this study, a quick and reliable method to characterise such …

Effect of CdSe quantum dots doping on the switching time, localised electric field and dielectric parameters of ferroelectric liquid crystal

RK Shukla, YG Galyametdinov, RR Shamilov… - Liquid …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A systematic study highlighting the effect of cadmium selenide quantum dots (CdSe QDs)
with varying concentrations of 0.05, 0.10 and 1.0 wt% doping on the electrooptical and …

Quenching of photoluminescence and enhanced contrast of ferroelectric liquid crystal dispersed with Cd1− XZnXS/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals

DP Singh, S Pandey, SK Gupta, R Manohar… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report the dispersion of Cd 1− x Zn x S/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals (NCs) in ferroelectric
liquid crystal (FLC) into different concentrations. Absorbance of white light …

Core/shell quantum dots in ferroelectric liquid crystals matrix: effect of spontaneous polarisation coupling with dopant

S Pandey, T Vimal, DP Singh, SK Gupta, G Pathak… - Liquid …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In order to fabricate efficient and superior performance liquid crystal (LC) devices, the
physical parameters of the LC mesogens can be duly altered by incorporating non …

Effect of dispersion of CdSe quantum dots on phase transition, electrical and electro-optical properties of 4PP4OB

UB Singh, MB Pandey, R Dhar, R Verma… - Liquid Crystals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We prepared composites of a liquid crystalline material, 4-pentylphenyl 4-octyloxybenzoate
(4PP4OB) and cadmium selenide quantum dots (CdSe-QDs) and investigated their …

Dielectric, electro-optical, and photoluminescence characteristics of ferroelectric liquid crystals on a graphene-coated indium tin oxide substrate

DP Singh, SK Gupta, T Vimal, R Manohar - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Multilayer graphene was deposited on indium tin oxide (ITO)-coated glass plates and
characterized by suitable techniques. A liquid crystal sample cell was designed using …

Dielectric and electro-optic properties of 6CHBT nematic liquid crystals and silver nanoparticles composites

DK Pandey, UB Singh, R Dhar, R Dabrowski… - Phase …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We have prepared the composite of a room temperature nematic liquid crystalline material
namely 4-(trans-4′-n-hexylcyclohexyl) isothiocyanatobenzoate (6CHBT) and silver …