Self-assembly of amphiphilic polymers with hydrophilic and hydrophobic units results in
micelles (polymeric nanoparticles), where polymer concentrations are above critical micelle …

Conspectus Spherical ordering from small molecules is a subject of intense interest to
chemists. The inherent capability of amphiphiles to assemble spontaneously is the unique …

Bottlebrush polymers are a class of highly branched macromolecules that show promise for
applications such as self-assembled photonic materials and tunable elastomers. However …

An increasing demand for innovative light manipulation technology results in an increased
requirement for tunable light-scattering devices. In this work, we have fabricated a light …

We, herein, report the fabrication of light-scattering switches from polymer microsphere-filled
liquid crystals (PFLCs) using pseudopeptidic bottlebrush polymers. A simple method of …

Polymers and peptides have recently been considered as promising materials for
piezoelectric energy harvesting because of their biocompatibility and enormous design …

Peptides and pseudopeptides show distinct self-assembled nanostructures such as fibers,
nanotubes, vesicles, micelles, toroids, helices and rods. The formation of such molecular …

Liquid crystal (LC) droplets are promising candidates for sensing applications due to their
high sensitivity to surface anchoring changes, resulting in readily detectable optical effects …

We present the dielectric and light-scattering properties of a liquid crystal (LC) with negative
dielectric anisotropy that has been incorporated with an amino acid-based pseudopeptide …

Herein, we report the stabilization of a nematic liquid crystal using chiral amino acid-based
polymers. For the first time, the effect of molecular weight of structurally similar polymers on …