Advanced functional liquid crystals

J Uchida, B Soberats, M Gupta, T Kato - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid crystals have been intensively studied as functional materials. Recently, integration of
various disciplines has led to new directions in the design of functional liquid‐crystalline …

Operando characterization of organic mixed ionic/electronic conducting materials

R Wu, M Matta, BD Paulsen, J Rivnay - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Operando characterization plays an important role in revealing the structure–property
relationships of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs), enabling the direct …

Engineering polymeric nanofluidic membranes for efficient ionic transport: biomimetic design, material construction, and advanced functionalities

XC Chen, H Zhang, SH Liu, Y Zhou, L Jiang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Design elements extracted from biological ion channels guide the engineering of artificial
nanofluidic membranes for efficient ionic transport and spawn biomimetic devices with great …

Supramolecular association and nanostructure formation of liquid crystals and polymers for new functional materials

T Kato, M Gupta, D Yamaguchi, KP Gan… - Bulletin of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We here describe our various concepts and achievements for material science, which have
been introduced through liquid-crystalline (LC) and polymer chemistry. They have resulted …

Influence of side-chain chemistry on structure and ionic conduction characteristics of polythiophene derivatives: a computational and experimental study

BX Dong, C Nowak, JW Onorato, J Strzalka… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Although extensive efforts have been devoted to understanding electronic transport in
conjugated polymers, little is known about their ionic conduction characteristics in relation to …

Aquatic Functional Liquid Crystals: Design, Functionalization, and Molecular Simulation

T Kato, J Uchida, Y Ishii, G Watanabe - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic functional liquid crystals, which are ordered molecular assemblies that work in water
environment, are described in this review. Aquatic functional liquid crystals are liquid …

Gemini thermotropic smectic liquid crystals for two-dimensional nanostructured water-treatment membranes

K Hamaguchi, R Ichikawa, S Kajiyama… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We have developed a two-dimensional (2D) liquid-crystalline (LC) nanostructured water-
treatment membrane showing high virus rejection ability (over 99.99997% for bacteriophage …

Structure control of a π-conjugated oligothiophene-based liquid crystal for enhanced mixed ion/electron transport characteristics

BX Dong, Z Liu, M Misra, J Strzalka, J Niklas… - Acs Nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Develo** soft materials with both ion and electron transport functionalities is of broad
interest for energy-storage and bioelectronics applications. Rational design of these …

Real‐Time Imaging of Ammonia Release from Single Live Cells via Liquid Crystal Droplets Immobilized on the Cell Membrane

M Khan, W Li, S Mao, SNA Shah, JM Lin - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor cells exhibit prominent metabolic alterations through which they acclimatize to their
stressful microenvironment. These cells have a high rate of glutaminolysis and release …

Ion Transport in 2D Nanostructured π-Conjugated Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Liquid Crystal

Z Wang, C Wang, Y Sun, K Wang, JW Strzalka… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Leveraging the self-assembling behavior of liquid crystals designed for controlling ion
transport is of both fundamental and technological significance. Here, we have designed …