The mechanics and statistics of active matter

S Ramaswamy - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2010‏ - annualreviews.org
Active particles contain internal degrees of freedom with the ability to take in and dissipate
energy and, in the process, execute systematic movement. Examples include all living …

Graphene oxide liquid crystals: discovery, evolution and applications

R Narayan, JE Kim, JY Kim, KE Lee… - Advanced …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The discovery and relevant research progress in graphene oxide liquid crystals (GOLCs),
the latest class of 2D nanomaterials exhibiting colloidal liquid crystallinity arising from the …

A nematic to nematic transformation exhibited by a rod-like liquid crystal

RJ Mandle, SJ Cowling, JW Goodby - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
A novel, highly polar rod-like liquid crystal was found to exhibit two distinct nematic
mesophases (N and NX). When studied by microscopy and X-ray scattering experiments …

Aqueous liquid crystals of graphene oxide

Z Xu, C Gao - ACS nano, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
The formation of liquid crystals (LCs) is the most viable approach to produce macroscopic,
periodic self-assembled materials from oriented graphene sheets. Herein, we have …

Rational design of rod‐like liquid crystals exhibiting two nematic phases

RJ Mandle, SJ Cowling… - Chemistry–A European …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recently, a polar, rod‐like liquid‐crystalline material was reported to exhibit two distinct
nematic mesophases (termed N and NX) separated by a weakly first‐order transition …

Tracing the phase boundaries of hard spherocylinders

P Bolhuis, D Frenkel - The Journal of chemical physics, 1997‏ - pubs.aip.org
We have mapped out the complete phase diagram of hard spherocylinders as a function of
the shape anisotropy L/D. Special computational techniques were required to locate phase …

Selective and controlled synthesis of α-and β-cobalt hydroxides in highly developed hexagonal platelets

Z Liu, R Ma, M Osada, K Takada… - Journal of the American …, 2005‏ - ACS Publications
We report on the controlled synthesis of single-crystal platelets of α-and β-Co (OH) 2 via
homogeneous precipitation using hexamethylenetetramine as a hydrolysis agent. The α-and …

Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra

A Haji-Akbari, M Engel, AS Keys, X Zheng… - Nature, 2009‏ - nature.com
All hard, convex shapes are conjectured by Ulam to pack more densely than spheres, which
have a maximum packing fraction of φ= π/√ 18≈ 0.7405. Simple lattice packings of many …

[ספר][B] Liquid crystals: fundamentals

S Singh - 2002‏ - books.google.com
Liquid crystals are partially ordered systems without a rigid, long-range structure. The study
of these materials covers a wide area: chemical structure, physical properties and technical …

Phase transitions in liquid crystals

S Singh - Physics Reports, 2000‏ - Elsevier
Mesogenic materials exhibit a multitude of transitions involving new phases. Studies of
these phases are of importance in a wide range of scientific fields and as such have …