Liquid crystals: versatile self-organized smart soft materials

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Chiral inorganic nanostructures

W Ma, L Xu, AF de Moura, X Wu, H Kuang, C Xu… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Light-driven liquid crystalline materials: from photo-induced phase transitions and property modulations to applications

HK Bisoyi, Q Li - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Light-driven phenomena both in living systems and nonliving materials have enabled truly
fascinating and incredible dynamic architectures with terrific forms and functions. Recently …

Nature‐inspired emerging chiral liquid crystal nanostructures: from molecular self‐assembly to DNA mesophase and nanocolloids

L Wang, AM Urbas, Q Li - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

Nematic twist-bend phase with nanoscale modulation of molecular orientation

V Borshch, YK Kim, J ** colloidal bananas to reveal biaxial, splay-bend nematic, and smectic phases
C Fernández-Rico, M Chiappini, T Yanagishima… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Understanding the impact of curvature on the self-assembly of elongated microscopic
building blocks, such as molecules and proteins, is key to engineering functional materials …

Polyvinylidene fluoride nanocomposites as piezoelectric nanogenerator: properties, fabrication and market applications

A Mukherjee, B Dasgupta Ghosh… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Depletion of fossil fuels and increase in pollution through chemical batteries trigger the
development of self‐powered devices based on flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators …