Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals represent a fascinating state of soft matter that showcases
unique optical and electro-optical properties. Existing between chiral nematic and isotropic …

A microsphere, assembled from a chiral π-conjugated polymer with narrow polydispersity,
features a well-organized twisted-bipolar structure and exhibits highly biased circularly …

Colloidal self-assembly has gained significant interest in scientific and technological
advances. We investigated the self-assembly of the colloids at fluidic interfaces that mediate …

The electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films are highly
dependent on the features of the contained liquid crystal (LC) droplets. Cholesteric LC …

Orientational structures of polymer-dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal under homeotropic
anchoring and their transformations under the action of an electric field are studied. The …

Defects and textures in liquid crystals are important and play crucial role in the identification
of mesophase types and their properties, and in the construction and operation of display …

This expert and self-contained authored handbook provides comprehensive coverage of
liquid crystals from the fundamental materials science, physics, and modeling through …

Orientational structures in spherical-cap droplets of chiral nematic liquid crystal are
investigated experimentally and numerically. The droplets under the study have …

Abstract Glucose dispersed 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) was studied and the
presence of glucose molecules was confirmed through UV–visible spectroscopy and image …

The broad field of liquid crystals (LCs) has attracted the attention of chemists, physicists,
biologists and engineers alike since the discovery of liquid crystalline phase by the Austrian …