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 …

Tunable and responsive photonic bio‐inspired materials and their applications

J Jeon, D Bukharina, M Kim, S Kang, J Kim… - Responsive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bio‐enabled and bio‐mimetic nanomaterials represent functional materials, which use bio‐
derived materials and synthetic components to bring the better of two, natural and synthetic …

Liquid crystalline naphthyl derivatives with bromoalkoxy tail: Photophysical behavior and DFT studies

M Rabari, RSK CH, AK Prajapati - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2023 - Elsevier
One new homologous series of mesogenic bromoalkoxy terminated naphthyl derivatives
containing flexible spacers as well as azo and ether linkages was synthesized by the …

Bioinspired confined assembly of cellulosic cholesteric liquid crystal bubbles

Q Wang, Z Zhang, C Wang, X Yang, Z Fang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Construction of biomimetic models for structural color evolution not only gives new photonic
phenomena but also provide cues for biological morphogenesis. Here, a novel confined self …

Dual tunability of selective reflection by light and electric field for self-organizing materials

M Mrukiewicz, M Cigl, P Perkowski, J Karcz… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The oblique helicoidal structure is formed in right-angle cholesterics under the applied
electric field. The electric field changes the pitch and cone angle but preserves the single …

Light-induced switchable adsorption in azobenzene-and stilbene-based porous materials

HF Drake, GS Day, Z **ao, HC Zhou, MR Ryder - Trends in Chemistry, 2022 - cell.com
Despite the long history of porous materials as adsorbates, fundamental limitations remain
regarding the efficient capture and release of the gas molecules, with the working capacity of …

The correlations between the molecular core structure and mesomorphic behaviour for chiral liquid crystals with several (S)-lactate groups

A Bubnov, M Cigl, S Mironov, M Otruba… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
To contribute to better understanding of the structure–property relationship for chiral liquid
crystalline materials a series of new liquid crystalline (LC) materials possessing several (S) …

A new thiazoldinone and triazole derivatives: Synthesis, characterization and liquid crystalline properties

JH Tomma, OB Al-Obaidi, AH Al-Dujaili - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2022 - Elsevier
The new compounds of thiazoldinone and triazole derivatives have been synthesized by
many steps procedure. The 4-methoxybenzo-hydrazide [II] a and benzene-1, 3, 5 …

Photo-and electro-controllable 2D diffraction gratings prepared using electrohydrodynamic instability in a nematic polymerizable mixture

A Bobrovsky, V Shibaev, B Ostrovskii, M Cigl… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Fast progress in modern information technologies requires the creation of new optical
devices and diffractive elements that determine emergent activities in the related research …

Structural Manipulation of a Zirconocene‐Based Porous Coordination Cage Using External and Host–Guest Stimuli

Z **ao, HF Drake, YH Rezenom, P Cai… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Porous coordination cages (PCCs) constructed from a zirconocene‐based cluster have
drawn great attention for their high stability and structural tunability. These features have …