The study of thermophysical properties is of great importance in several scientific fields.
Among them, the heat capacity, for example, is related to the microscopic structure of …

Influential electro-optical and textural properties in the smectic C* phase have been
observed using gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs). An …

Recent experimental and theoretical efforts have focused on using liquid-crystal systems as
a test bed for understanding the statistical mechanics of quenched random disorder. In …

Nonvolatile memory effect based on gold nanoparticles (GNPs) doped deformed helix
ferroelectric liquid crystal (DHFLC) has been observed. This observed memory effect has …

Liquid crystals offer many unique opportunities to study various phase transitions with
continuous symmetry in the presence of quenched random disorder (QRD). The QRD arises …

The numerical study of the system of hydrodynamic equations that include the director
motion, fluid flow, and the temperature field redistribution across the hybrid-oriented liquid …

High-resolution ac calorimetry has been carried out on dispersions of aerosils in the liquid
crystal octyloxycyanobiphenyl (8OCB) as a function of aerosil concentration and …

The impact of magnetic nanoparticles with different surface coating upon the isotropic-to-
nematic and nematic-to-smectic-A phase transitions of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl …

The effect of confinement on liquid crystal phase transitions was investigated in mixtures of
the liquid crystal heptylcyanobiphenyl with hydrophilic aerosils. The influence of the aerosil …

We study the influence of the dispersed aerosil particle concentration on the soft and
Goldstone mode dynamics across the smectic-A–smectic-C* phase transition using …