Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

Organic semiconducting materials offer the advantage of solution processability into flexible
films. In most cases, their drawback is based on their low charge carrier mobility, which is …

This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the phase behaviour of, and
interfacial properties in, complex colloidal mixtures (eg, clay, milk, blood). Insights into …

A review is given of the field of mineral colloidal liquid crystals: liquid crystal phases formed
by individual mineral particles within colloidal suspensions. Starting from their discovery in …

We perform an extensive computational study on the phase behavior of hard banana-
shaped particles, and show that biaxial, twist-bend, and splay-bend nematic phases are …

Smectite clay minerals and their suspensions have long been of both great scientific and
applications interest and continue to display a remarkable range of new and interesting …

Cotton cellulose nanocrystals with different aspect ratios have been dispersed in
cyclohexane as a model apolar solvent, using surfactants. Above a critical concentration …

Silicate nanorods (attapulgite, ATT) were organically modified and homogeneously
dispersed in a cyanate ester (CE) resin. ATT dispersions and networks were characterized …

Clay minerals, like beidellite or nontronite, spontaneously exfoliate in water and form
colloidal suspensions of nanosheets. In a given range of concentration, these suspensions …

Liquid crystal (LC) phases are in between solids and liquids with properties of both. Nematic
LCs composed of rod-like molecules or particles exhibit long-range orientational order …