Cellulose is known to interact well with water, but is insoluble in it. Many polysaccharides
such as cellulose are known to have significant hydrogen bond networks joining the …

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 …

A state of matter in which molecules show a long-range orientational order and no positional
order is called a nematic liquid crystal. The best known and most widely used (for example …

By using an independent self-assembly process that is occasionally controlled by
evaporation, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) may create films (pure or in conjunction with …

This paper presents an overview of liquid crystal (LC) models of phase diagrams, phase
transitions, self-assembly, interfaces, defects, and rheology and their integrated applications …

In the recent two decades liquid crystal science has contributed significantly to the
understanding of mirror symmetry breaking and spontaneous emergence of chirality in …

Amyloid fibrils offer the possibility of controlling their contour length, aspect ratio, and length
distribution, without affecting other structural parameters. Here we show that a fine control in …

It has been found that bent-shaped achiral molecules can form a liquid crystal phase, called
the Twist-Bend Nematic (NTB), which is locally polar and spontaneously twisted having a …

We compare the phase behavior of a mutant filamentous virus, fd Y21M, to that of a
conventional fd wild-type (wt). We find significantly different macroscopic phase behavior …

Electrically induced reorientation of liquid crystals (LCs) is a fundamental phenomenon
widely used in modern technologies. We observe experimentally an electrooptic effect in a …