Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) materials are of interest both for their potential in
display technology and the fascinating science found in liquid crystals confined to small …

The historical, methodological and technical development and the applications of
temperature-modulated calorimetry (also known as AC calorimetry) are reviewed over the …

Magnetic resonance and calorimetric studies of 4'-n-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl confined to
Vycor glass, a random network of pores with average diameter∼ 70 Å, are reported. Under …

High-resolution calorimetric studies have been made of the liquid crystal phase transitions
for several dispersions of 70-Å-diam silica spheres (aerosil) in octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) as …

Topological solitons have knotted continuous field configurations embedded in a uniform
background, and occur in cosmology, biology, and electromagnetism. However, real‐time …

We present a calorimetric study of the phase behavior of octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) liquid
crystal confined to a controlled-pore glass (CPG). We used CPG matrices with characteristic …

We experimentally investigate the impact of surface functionalized hydrophobic core-shell
CdSe/ZnS quantum dots on the phase behavior and order of the host liquid crystal …

The nematic-to-isotropic, crystal-to-nematic, and supercooled liquid-to-glass temperatures
are studied in the liquid crystal 4-pentyl-4′-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) confined in self-ordered …

We study smectic liquid crystals in random environments, eg, aerogel. A low-temperature
analysis reveals that even arbitrarily weak quenched disorder (ie, arbitrarily low aerogel …

The orientation control of liquid crystal (LC) phases is essential for fundamental studies as
well as practical applications. Surface treatment and topographic confinement have …