Recent progress and future perspectives on carbon-nanomaterial-dispersed liquid crystal composites

A Kumar, DP Singh, G Singh - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The realm of liquid crystals (LCs) has significantly benefited when amalgamated with the
exciting features of nanotechnology. Various nanomaterials (NMs) have shown their …

Electric‐field‐induced alignment of functionalized carbon nanotubes inside thermally conductive liquid crystalline polyimide composite films

K Ruan, X Shi, Y Zhang, Y Guo, X Zhong… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The positive liquid crystals, 4′‐heptyl‐4‐biphenylcarbonitrile (7CB), are used to
functionalize carbon nanotubes (LC‐CNT), which can be aligned in the liquid crystalline …

Conventional and unconventional ionic phenomena in tunable soft materials made of liquid crystals and nanoparticles

Y Garbovskiy - Nano Express, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A great variety of tunable multifunctional materials can be produced by combining
nanoparticles and liquid crystals. Typically, the tunability of such soft nanocomposites is …

Enhancement in electrical conductivity of liquid crystals by graphene metal oxide composites

M Khodaee, N Dalir, F Feghhi, N Ansari… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Enhancing the electrical conductivity of liquid crystal (LC) circumvents challenges for
application in advanced electronic components. Toward this, using additives made of …

Enhanced electrochemical and electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystal doped with Ni: ZnCdS/ZnS core/shell quantum dots

Z Seidalilir, E Soheyli, M Sabaeian… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
The doping effects of Ni-doped ZnCdS/ZnS (Ni: ZnCdS/ZnS) core/shell quantum dots (QDs)
on the electrochemical and electro-optical properties of a nematic liquid crystal (LC) system …

Frequency dependence of dielectric permittivity and conductivity of functionalized carbon nanotube-nematic liquid crystal nanocomposite

SJ Shivaraja, S Mishra, K Dutta, RK Gupta… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
The addition of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to nematic liquid crystal (NLC) medium is known
to enhance the orientational order along with the enhancement in electro-optical and …

Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Mushrooms Like MWCNT/SiO2@ZnO Nanocomposite: Influence on Nematic Liquid Crystal E7 and Highly Effective Photocatalytic …

H Eskalen, S Uruş, Ş Özgan - Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic …, 2021 - Springer
Mostly-uniform spherical mushrooms like MWCNT/SiO 2@ ZnO nanocomposite was
synthesized under microwave power and characterized using TEM, XRD, EDX, TG/DTA and …

Thermodynamic study for the role of functional group on the honey-comb pattern interaction between CNT and E5CN7 nematic liquid crystal

N Dalir, S Javadian - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
A carboxyl functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT-COOH) was doped to
eutectic E 5CN7 mixtures of pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB) and heptylcyanobiphenyl (7CB) …

Liquid crystal polymer nanocomposites: Challenges and opportunities

PM Visakh - Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanocomposites, 2022 - Elsevier
Similar to low molar mass liquid crystals, both are elementary restricted and determine the
liquid crystalline state and order. In the case of, end on side chain elastomers tend towards …

High-resolution dielectric anisotropy investigation of carbon nanotube–smectic- liquid crystal dispersions: An upper limit of the latent heat and the pretransitional …

F Guven, O Girgin, MC Cetinkaya, H Ozbek, S Yildiz - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Within the entire mesomorphic range, high-precision dielectric anisotropy data with the high-
temperature resolution is presented for a highly polar smectic-A liquid crystal 8CB …