Liquid crystals constitute a fascinating class of soft condensed matter characterized by the
counterintuitive combination of fluidity and long-range order. Today they are best known for …

Liquid crystals are finding increasing applications in a wide variety of fields including liquid-
crystal display technology, materials science, bioscience, etc., apart from acting as prototype …

Conjugated polymers, such as polyfluorene and poly (phenylene vinylene), have been used
to selectively disperse semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (sc-SWNTs), but …

Among the many potential applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT), its usage to strengthen
polymers has been paid considerable attention due to the exceptional stiffness, excellent …

Semiconducting carbon nanotubes promise faster performance and lower power
consumption than Si in field-effect transistors (FETs) if they can be aligned in dense arrays …

Industrial production of single-chirality carbon nanotubes is critical for their applications in
high-speed and low-power nanoelectronic devices, but both their growth and separation …

Graphene-based materials are attracting increasing attention because of their excellent and
intriguing physical properties.[1] Applications of such materials in micro-and nanoelectronic …

Hybrid nanomaterials are molecular or colloidal‐level combinations of organic and
inorganic materials, or otherwise strongly dissimilar materials. They are often, though not …

Combinations of liquid crystals and materials with unique features as well as properties at
the nanoscale are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to recent developments, ie, since …

Dense alignment of single-walled carbon nanotubes over a large area is demonstrated
using a novel solution-shearing technique. A density of 150-200 single-walled carbon …