The liquid crystalline phase has attracted tremendous attention from researchers across the
globe due to its intriguing properties. In this article, we enumerate the different classes of …

Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) represent aqueous dispersions of organic disk-
like molecules that form cylindrical aggregates. Despite the growing interest in these …

Hypothesis The nanoporous polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surfaces of a rectangular
microfluidic channel, selectively uptakes water molecules, concentrating the solute …

Mammalian cells are soft, and correct functioning requires that cells undergo dynamic shape
changes in vivo. Although a range of diseases are associated with stiffening of red blood …

Tactoids are nuclei of an orientationally ordered nematic phase that emerge upon cooling
the isotropic phase. In addition to providing a natural setting for exploring chromonics under …

Having a well-aligned monodomain is critical to performing fundamental studies on liquid
crystals as well as exploiting them for technological applications. Unlike conventional …

Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) constitute a unique variety of water-soluble
mesogens that spontaneously assemble into elongated aggregates, thereby resulting in the …

Chromonics are a class of liquid crystals made of aqueous solutions of plank-like molecules,
which self-assemble into semiflexible chains. At a given temperature a nematic phase is …

The spontaneous aggregation of binary mixtures of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
(LCLCs) was investigated using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. Equimolecular …

Temperature and composition effects in Sunset Yellow FCF (SSY) aqueous solutions were
studied by the 1H, 15N NMR as well as Raman spectroscopy passing through all phase …