Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

This book presents the theory of soft matter to students at the advanced undergraduate or
beginning graduate level. It provides a basic introduction to theoretical physics as applied to …

Ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) possess excellent electro-optical properties compared to
nematic liquid crystals (LCs) including lower threshold voltage, faster switching response …

From the time of their revelation, liquid crystals (LCs) are stimulating scientific curiosity in the
basic and applied research of these materials as they simultaneously encompass the …

Four new series of laterally methyl-substituted hydrogen-bonded supramolecular complexes
were prepared. The prepared complexes were thermally investigated by differential …

A three-layered composite fibre has been generated via a modified wire-coating melt co-
extrusion process. The continuous fibre consists of a thermochromic liquid crystalline (TLC) …

The appearance of reentrant nematic phase was identified in n CB/8CB (n= 1–6) binary
mixtures using differential scanning calorimetry, small-angle X-ray diffraction and polarising …

The results of dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and polarizing microscope observation of
the 4′-butyl-4-(2-methylbutoxy) azoxybenzene (abbreviated as 4ABO5*) are presented …