Liquid crystals have a long history of use as materials that respond to external stimuli (eg,
electrical and optical fields). More recently, a series of investigations have reported the …

Liquid crystals (LCs) have become indispensable materials in everyday life, with their
applications ranging from high-resolution television displays to being a part of sophisticated …

The review describes the status of the studies and the recent achievements in the field of
photoalignment of liquid crystals. An update classification of photoaligning materials and …

We demonstrate a thermally tunable optical metamaterial with negative permeability working
in the visible range. By covering coupled metallic nanostrips with aligned nematic liquid …

Super-aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) film is a transparent conductive film composed of
numerous parallel CNTs connected to each other by the van der Waals force. We have …

A method to generate any liquid crystal pretilt angle is proposed and demonstrated. This
method is based on deep ultraviolet photoalignment of a layer consisting of nanostructured …

The post-processing of a poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate)(PEVA) film by ion-beam (IB)
irradiation is described herein for use as a liquid crystal (LC) alignment layer. Various film …

We create planar-periodic alignment in nematic liquid crystal (LC) cell by using a command
layer of azo-dye molecules directly deposited on the cell substrates and exposed with two …

From the time of their revelation, liquid crystals (LCs) are stimulating scientific curiosity in the
basic and applied research of these materials as they simultaneously encompass the …

Hybrid films containing bismuth magnesium oxide (BiMgO) and graphene oxide (GO) are
investigated in this study. Solution-processed brush coating is used to fabricate the hybrid …