Liquid crystals: versatile self-organized smart soft materials

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
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) …

Advanced functional liquid crystals

J Uchida, B Soberats, M Gupta, T Kato - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Stimuli‐driven control of the helical axis of self‐organized soft helical superstructures

HK Bisoyi, TJ Bunning, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular and macromolecular functional helical superstructures are ubiquitous in
nature and display an impressive catalog of intriguing and elegant properties and …

Seeing the unseen: the role of liquid crystals in gas‐sensing technologies

C Esteves, E Ramou, ARP Porteira… - Advanced optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fast, real‐time detection of gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is an emerging
research field relevant to most aspects of modern society, from households to health …

Complex liquid crystal emulsions for biosensing

A Concellón, D Fong, TM Swager - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Herein we describe a highly responsive optical biosensor based on dynamic complex liquid
crystal (LC) emulsions. These emulsions are simple to prepare and consist of immiscible …

Ultrasensitive and selective detection of SARS-CoV-2 using thermotropic liquid crystals and image-based machine learning

Y Xu, AM Rather, S Song, JC Fang, RL Dupont… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
Rapid, robust virus-detection techniques with ultrahigh sensitivity and selectivity are
required for the outbreak of the pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by …

Biosensor array of interpenetrating polymer network with photonic film templated from reactive cholesteric liquid crystal and enzyme‐immobilized hydrogel polymer

KG Noh, SY Park - Advanced Functional Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A biosensor array is fabricated using an interpenetrating polymer network consisting of
photonic film templated from reactive cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) and enzyme …

Liquid crystalline elastomer actuators with dynamic covalent bonding: Synthesis, alignment, reprogrammability, and self-healing

G Das, SY Park - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) have demonstrated tremendous potential in
applications such as soft robotics, biomedical materials, electronics, sensors, and …

Liquid crystal-based sensors for the detection of biomarkers at the aqueous/LC interface

M Khan, S Liu, L Qi, C Ma, S Munir, L Yu… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Decorating liquid crystals (LCs) with stimuli-responsive materials provides a bridge between
the LCs and the biochemical interactions. The alignments of the LC molecules are …