Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

Bent-core (BC) materials that form nematic liquid crystals (BC nematics (BCNs)) are known
only since 2000, but since then they have been intensively studied. In this review we give a …

Electrically responsive photonic crystals represent one of the most promising intelligent
materials for technological applications in optoelectronics. In this research, a polymer …

Fabricating functional materials via molecular self-assembly is a promising approach, and
precisely controlling the molecular building blocks of nanostructures in the self-assembly …

The blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) is a highly ordered liquid crystal (LC) phase found very
close to the LC–isotropic transition. The BPLC has demonstrated potential in next …

Liquid-crystalline blue phases have attracted a considerable amount of attention because of
their hierarchical phase structures with optical isotropy and because of their application to …

Skyrmions are topologically protected, vortex-like structures found in various condensed-
matter systems including helical ferromagnets and liquid crystals, typically arising from chiral …

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties provides insight into the
latest developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens …

Liquid crystalline Blue Phases have recently encouraged a large interest in soft matter
materials development, due to their possible application in faster and easier to produce …

Electro-optical switching with low voltage, no hysteresis and fast response speed is
achieved in polymer-stabilized nanoparticle-enriched blue phase liquid crystals with a wide …