Liquid crystal emulsions: A versatile platform for photonics, sensing, and active matter

A Concellón - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembly of liquid crystals (LCs) is a fascinating method for controlling the
organization of discrete molecules into nanostructured functional materials. Although LCs …

Multiresponsive cylindrically symmetric cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibers templated by tubular confinement

Y Geng, JPF Lagerwall - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cylindrically symmetric cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer (CLCE) fibers templated by
tubular confinement are reported, displaying mechanochromic, thermochromic, and …

Tunable templating of photonic microparticles via liquid crystal order-guided adsorption of amphiphilic polymers in emulsions

X Ma, Y Han, YS Zhang, Y Geng, A Majumdar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multiple emulsions are usually stabilized by amphiphilic molecules that combine the
chemical characteristics of the different phases in contact. When one phase is a liquid crystal …

Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors with Tunable Color from Single‐Domain Cellulose Nanocrystal Microshells

Y Geng, C Honorato‐Rios, JH Noh… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The wavelength‐and polarization‐selective Bragg reflection of visible light exhibited by films
produced by drying cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals …

Dynamic Manipulation of Photonic Bandgaps in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Microdroplets for Applications

X Liu, L Qin, Y Yu - Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, 2024 - Elsevier
Cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) microdroplets, as three-dimensional photonic crystals,
exhibit high spatial symmetry. In these microdroplets, LC molecules are aligned parallel to …

Pixelating structural color with cholesteric spherical reflectors

H Agha, YS Zhang, Y Geng… - Advanced Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While structural color is a powerful means of obtaining saturated and durable pigments that
minimize absorption, scattering, and negative environmental impact, appearing naturally in …

Impact of mesogenic aromaticity and cyano termination on the alignment and stability of liquid crystal shells

A Sharma, R Kizhakidathazhath, JPF Lagerwall - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We carry out a strategic and systematic variation of the molecular structure of liquid crystals
(LCs) molded into spherical shells, surrounded by aqueous isotropic phases internally and …

[HTML][HTML] Vision-based situational graphs exploiting fiducial markers for the integration of semantic entities

A Tourani, H Bavle, DI Avşar, JL Sanchez-Lopez… - Robotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Situational Graphs (S-Graphs) merge geometric models of the environment generated by
Simultaneous Localization and Map** (SLAM) approaches with 3D scene graphs into a …

Liquid crystal elastomer actuators and sensors: Glimpses of the past, the present and perhaps the future

J Lagerwall - Programmable Materials, 2023 - cambridge.org
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are programmable materials par excellence. I review the
history and state of the art of LCE materials and processing development from the …

The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research

JPF Lagerwall - Liquid Crystals, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Liquid crystal-forming cyanobiphenyls are truly extraordinary molecules that have had an
enormous impact on liquid crystal research and applications since they were first …