Polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) systems based on a smectic liquid crystal
embedded in polyvinylalcohol-boric acid (PVAB) as biocompatible carrying matrix were …

Gas sorption is a key technology for solving the global issues of energy and the environment
that beset the world. From the end of the twentieth century, porous coordination polymers …

During the past three decades, the ability of guanidinium arenesulfonate host frameworks to
encapsulate a wide range of guests has been amply demonstrated, with more than 700 …

The importance of hydrogen bonds is widely recognized because of their role in defining the
structure and properties of many compounds, including water, proteins, DNA, and polymers …

Due to the limited thermal stability of current commercially available liquid crystals (LCs), the
incorporation into polymer composites through standard processing techniques, such as …

Ionic self‐assembled (ISA) surfactant complexes present a facile concept for self‐assembly
of various functional materials. However, no general scheme has been shown to allow their …

Amphiphilic guanidinium alkylbenzenesulfonates (GC n BS; n= number of carbons in the
alkyl chain) exhibited lyotropic behavior in aqueous and organic solvents. The GC n BS …

In this work, the development and application of multicomponents obtained from recycled
polyethylene terephthalate (r-PET) waste and monotropic liquid crystals as anticorrosion …

Crystalline materials made from molecular components can possess useful properties that
can be tailored through judicious selection of their molecular building blocks. The utility of …

Nanocomposites such as graphite, fullerene, graphene, and carbon nanotubes have been
used as polymeric filler materials in the polymer processing industries. The existence of …