This brief Perspective focuses on recent advances in the design of functional soft materials
that are based on confinement of low molecular weight liquid crystals (LCs) within …

Recently the preparation and handling of liquid crystalline (LC) particles, which cover the
size from some 100 nano-meters to micro-and millimetres found more interest. This review …

Liquid crystal (LC) droplets are highly attractive for applications in privacy windows, optical
switches, optical vortices, optical microresonators, microlenses, and biosensors due to their …

In this study, the rotation of liquid crystal droplets induced by elliptically polarized laser light
was investigated using optical tweezers. The rotation mechanism was analyzed based on …

The dynamics of long term phase separation in binary liquid mixtures remains a subject of
fundamental interest. Here, we study a binary liquid mixture, where the minority phase is …

Bioderived materials have become an increasingly desirable alternative to materials
sourced from nonrenewable resources. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), often derived from …

When examined with polarized optical microscopy (POM), liquid crystals display interference
colors and complex patterns that depend on the material's microscopic orientation. That …

The spontaneous positioning of colloids on the surfaces of micrometer‐sized liquid crystal
(LC) droplets and their subsequent polymerization offers the basis of a general and facile …

Cholesteric droplets dispersed in polymer with conical boundary conditions have been
studied. The director configurations are identified by the polarising microscopy technique …

We report the light beam action on the nematic liquid crystal film with a free surface. It was
found that a weak light absorption by the liquid crystal substrate dramatically changes the …