Properties and application of nanostructure in liquid crystals

GF Smaisim, KJ Mohammed, SK Hadrawi, H Koten… - BioNanoScience, 2023 - Springer
Liquid crystal materials are a suitable environment for the synthesis of nanostructures of
uniform size and shape due to their order and yet mobility at the molecular level. Dense …

[HTML][HTML] Lyotropic liquid crystals for parenteral drug delivery

VP Chavda, S Dawre, A Pandya, LK Vora… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
The necessity for long-term treatments of chronic diseases has encouraged the
development of novel long-acting parenteral formulations intending to improve drug …

Exosomes Engineered to Express a Cardiomyocyte Binding Peptide Demonstrate Improved Cardiac Retention in Vivo

KI Mentkowski, JK Lang - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Injury to the heart results in cardiomyocyte cell death and can lead to pathological
remodeling of remaining cells, contributing to heart failure. Despite the therapeutic potential …

Hypoxia-induced exosomes contribute to a more aggressive and chemoresistant ovarian cancer phenotype: a novel mechanism linking STAT3/Rab proteins

KDP Dorayappan, R Wanner, JJ Wallbillich, U Saini… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Hypoxia-mediated tumor progression, metastasis, and drug resistance are major clinical
challenges in ovarian cancer. Exosomes released in the hypoxic tumor microenvironment …

Understanding the twist-bend nematic phase: the characterisation of 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) hexane (CB6OCB) and comparison …

DA Paterson, M Gao, YK Kim, A Jamali, KL Finley… - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis and characterisation of the nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimer, 1-(4-
cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) hexane (CB6OCB) is reported. An …

Physics of liquid crystals of bent-shaped molecules

A Jákli, OD Lavrentovich, JV Selinger - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
Thermotropic liquid crystals can be formed by various molecular shapes, some discovered
over 125 years ago. The simplest and most-studied liquid crystals are made of rod-shaped …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancer exosomes as drivers of epithelial mesenchymal transition

MA Rahman, JF Barger, F Lovat, M Gao, GA Otterson… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Exosomes, a subgroup of extracellular vesicles (EVs), have been shown to serve as a
conduit for the exchange of genetic information between cells. Exosomes are released from …

Reversible isothermal twist–bend nematic–nematic phase transition driven by the photoisomerization of an azobenzene-based nonsymmetric liquid crystal dimer

DA Paterson, J **ang, G Singh, R Walker… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The liquid crystal nonsymmetric dimer, 1-(4-butoxyazobenzene-4′-yloxy)-6-(4-
cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl) hexane (CB6OABOBu), shows enantiotropic twist–bend nematic …

Room temperature heliconical twist-bend nematic liquid crystal

Y Wang, G Singh, DM Agra-Kooijman, M Gao… - …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The nanostructured heliconical twist-bend nematic (Ntb) phase is a new condensed phase
of matter with unique properties. Here we present the first example of an achiral hybrid bent …

Chirality amplification by desymmetrization of chiral ligand-capped nanoparticles to nanorods quantified in soft condensed matter

A Nemati, S Shadpour, L Querciagrossa, L Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Induction, transmission, and manipulation of chirality in molecular systems are well known,
widely applied concepts. However, our understanding of how chirality of nanoscale entities …