Liquid crystals are finding increasing applications in a wide variety of fields including liquid-
crystal display technology, materials science, bioscience, etc., apart from acting as prototype …

Featured Application Nanomaterial-doped liquid crystals. Abstract The research field of
liquid crystals and their applications is recently changing from being largely focused on …

We demonstrate the bulk self-alignment of dispersed gold nanorods imposed by the intrinsic
cylindrical micelle self-assembly in nematic and hexagonal liquid crystalline phases of …

Liquid crystal nanoscience, a field exploring the mutually beneficial combination of the
unique properties of nanoscale materials and fluid, yet ordered liquid crystalline phases, is …

Combinations of liquid crystals and materials with unique features as well as properties at
the nanoscale are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to recent developments, ie, since …

The precepts of green chemistry have been spreading since the mid-1990s, concomitant
with advances in nanomaterial synthesis. Recently these two communities have begun to …

Self-assembly of multicomponent anisotropic nanocrystals with controlled orientation and
spatial distribution allows the design of novel metamaterials with unique shape-and …

Liquid crystal (LC) nanoscience has been witnessing a paradigm shift towards the
dispersion of Cadmium (Cd) based quantum dots (QDs) into LCs to enhance their electro …

The cylindrical quasi-one-dimensional shape of colloidal semiconductor nanorods (NRs)
gives them unique electronic structure and optical properties. In addition to the band gap …

Confining visible light to nanoscale dimensions has become possible with surface
plasmons. Many plasmonic elements have already been realized. Nanorods, for example …