Improvement in the electro-optical and electronic properties of the reduced graphene oxide dispersed in a liquid crystalline material 4'-octyl-4-cyano-biphenyl

PK Singh, P Dubey, R Dhar, R Dabrowski - Liquid Crystals, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Herein, a small concentration (0.05 wt%) of reduced graphene oxide is
dispersed in the liquid crystalline media. Thermodynamic study shows the reduction of the …

A new strategy towards the synthesis of a room-temperature discotic nematic liquid crystal employing triphenylene and pentaalkynylbenzene units

M Gupta, SP Gupta, MV Rasna, D Adhikari… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
A new approach is reported for the design of a room-temperature discotic nematic (ND)
liquid crystal (LC) dimer consisting of a triphenylene and a pentaalkynylbenzene unit linked …

[HTML][HTML] A dilute nematic gel produced by intramicellar segregation of two polyoxyethylene alkyl ether carboxylic acids

P Denk, L Matthews, S Prévost, T Zemb… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Motivation Surfactants like C 8 E 8 CH 2 COOH have such bulky headgroups that
they cannot show the common sphere-to-cylinder transition, while surfactants like C 18: 1 E …

Impact of dispersed graphene oxide on thermodynamical, optical, electro optical and dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystal

PK Singh, P Dubey, R Dabrowski, R Dhar - Liquid Crystals, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Colloidal suspension of 8CB dispersed with graphene oxide has been prepared. Differential
scanning calorimetry scans have been performed for both pure and graphene oxide …

Effect of noncovalent interaction of a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal for interferometric applications over a range of low frequencies

A Hassanfiroozi, YP Huang - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polymer-dispersed liquid crystal devices modulate the amplitude and optical phase of light
in response to an electrical stimulation. Due to the mismatch of the refractive indices of the …

Room‐temperature oligomeric discotic nematic liquid crystals over a wide temperature range: structure–property relationships

M Gupta, SP Gupta, SS Mohapatra… - … –A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The design and synthesis of three room‐temperature discotic nematic (ND) liquid crystals
(LCs) is presented. The LC consists of an azobenzene core attached to which are four …

Formulating additives in thermoresponsive surfactant-based nematic liquid crystals

P Denk, L Matthews, T Zemb, W Kunz - Tenside Surfactants …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Bicelles can be formed by mixing in given mole fractions two ethoxylated alkyl ether
carboxylic acid surfactants of very different HLB in water. We determine the effect of adding …

Elastic properties of common Gay–Berne nematogens from density of states (DOS) simulations

H Sidky, JK Whitmer - Liquid Crystals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A free energy perturbation method is used to systematically study the elastic
properties of four common Gay–Berne nematogenic models; two with a length-to-diameter …

Director anchoring on a simple edge dislocation at the surface of induced smectic- films

Y Galerne - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We present a detailed analysis of c-director anchoring measurements on simple edge
dislocations at the surface of smectic-CA films (steps). Indications show that the c-director …

Wave propagation and acoustic band gaps of two-dimensional liquid crystal/solid phononic crystals

O Oltulu, AM Mamedov, E Ozbay - Applied Physics A, 2017 - Springer
The vast majority of acoustic wave propagation in phononic band studies has been usually
carried out by scattering inclusions embedded in a viscoelastic medium, such as air or …