Thermotropic liquid crystals with low-dimensional carbon allotropes

AP Draude, I Dierking - Nano Express, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
As display devices based on liquid crystals have matured over the last decades, liquid
crystal research has shifted its priorities in slightly different directions, such as sensors …

Tree growth in Switzerland is increasingly constrained by rising evaporative demand

V Trotsiuk, F Babst, C Grossiord, A Gessler… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The response of trees to intra‐annual environmental constraints varies temporally
throughout a growing season and spatially across landscapes. A better understanding of …

Liquid–liquid crystalline phase separation in biological filamentous colloids: nucleation, growth and order–order transitions of cholesteric tactoids

P Azzari, M Bagnani, R Mezzenga - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The process of liquid–liquid crystalline phase separation (LLCPS) in filamentous colloids is
at the very core of multiple biological, physical and technological processes of broad …

Electrical control of shape in voxelated liquid crystalline polymer nanocomposites

T Guin, BA Kowalski, R Rao, AD Auguste… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) exhibit anisotropic mechanical, thermal, and optical
properties. The director orientation within an LCE can be spatially localized into voxels …

New patchy particle model with anisotropic patches for molecular dynamics simulations: Application to a coarse-grained model of cellulose Nanocrystal

N Rolland, AY Mehandzhiyski, M Garg… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature and underlies the formation of many complex systems
from the molecular to the macroscopic scale. Kern–Frenkel-like patchy particles are powerful …

Complex Smectic Phases in Polymer-Grafted Shape-Uniform Cellulose Nano-Crystals

WS Fall, HH Wensink - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
The effect of short chain grafting on the liquid crystalline (LC) ordering of nanocrystals is
investigated using molecular dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained grafted nanorod …

Magnetic segregation effect in liquid crystals doped with carbon nanotubes

DA Petrov, PK Skokov, AN Zakhlevnykh… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2019 - beilstein-journals.org
We study the orientational transitions in a suspension of carbon nanotubes in a nematic
liquid crystal induced by an external magnetic field. The case of a finite orientational …

[引用][C] Control of micro-particles with liquid crystals

C Peng, OD Lavrentovich - Liquid Crystals: New Perspectives, 2021 - John Wiley & Sons