New frontiers for the materials genome initiative

JJ de Pablo, NE Jackson, MA Webb, LQ Chen… - npj Computational …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) advanced a new paradigm for materials
discovery and design, namely that the pace of new materials deployment could be …

The Current Understanding of Mechanistic Pathways in Zeolite Crystallization

AJ Mallette, K Shilpa, JD Rimer - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Zeolite catalysts and adsorbents have been an integral part of many commercial processes
and are projected to play a significant role in emerging technologies to address the …

Topological defects in liquid crystals as templates for molecular self-assembly

X Wang, DS Miller, E Bukusoglu, JJ De Pablo… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
Topological defects in liquid crystals (LCs) have been widely used to organize colloidal
dispersions and template polymerization, leading to a range of assemblies, elastomers and …

Design of responsive and active (soft) materials using liquid crystals

E Bukusoglu, M Bedolla Pantoja… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Liquid crystals (LCs) are widely known for their use in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Indeed,
LCDs represent one of the most successful technologies developed to date using a …

“Liquid, gel and soft glass” phase transitions and rheology of nanocrystalline cellulose suspensions as a function of concentration and salinity

Y Xu, AD Atrens, JR Stokes - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The colloidal size and rod morphology of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) lead to
suspensions with useful phase and gelation behaviours as well as complex rheologies …

Experimental insights into the nanostructure of the cores of topological defects in liquid crystals

X Wang, YK Kim, E Bukusoglu, B Zhang, DS Miller… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The nanoscopic structure of the cores of topological defects in anisotropic condensed matter
is an unresolved issue, although a number of theoretical predictions have been reported. In …

Downsizing of Block Polymer-Templated Nanopores to One Nanometer via Hyper-Cross-Linking of High χ–Low N Precursors

J Lee, M Seo - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Synthesizing nanoporous polymer from the block polymer template by selective removal of
the sacrificial domain offers straightforward pore size control as a function of the degree of …

[HTML][HTML] Phase transition and gelation in cellulose nanocrystal-based aqueous suspensions studied by SANS

Y Xu, EP Gilbert, A Sokolova, JR Stokes - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Aqueous suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) form a re-entrant liquid
crystal (LC) phase with increasing salinity. Phase separation occurs in this LC state leading …

Liquid crystal hydroglass formed via phase separation of nanocellulose colloidal rods

Y Xu, AD Atrens, JR Stokes - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A new anisotropic soft material–a liquid crystal 'hydroglass'(LCH)–is created from aqueous
suspensions of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) colloidal rods. Under specific conditions, the …

Ionic liquid crystal elastomers-based flexible organic electrochemical transistors: Effect of director alignment of the solid electrolyte

CP Hemantha Rajapaksha, PR Paudel… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have attracted great attention since their
discovery in 1984 due to their flexibility and biocompatibility. Although an intense focus has …