Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals
Nowadays, chemically synthesized proteins and peptides are attractive building blocks and have potential in many important applications as biomaterials. In this review, applications of biomaterials to thermotropic liquid crystals are discussed. The review covers the improvement of the performance of...
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| author | Kengo Sakaguchi Hirokazu Furue Urara Sugai Yasutaka Seki Kazuki Iwabata |
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| description | Nowadays, chemically synthesized proteins and peptides are attractive building blocks and have potential in many important applications as biomaterials. In this review, applications of biomaterials to thermotropic liquid crystals are discussed. The review covers the improvement of the performance of liquid crystal displays using liquid crystal physical gels consisting of a liquid crystal and amino acid-based gelators, and also new functionalization of liquid crystals. Moreover, the influence of DNA, which is one of the more attractive biomaterials, dispersed in thermotropic liquid crystals and its potential use in the liquid crystal industry is described. In addition, we found interesting results during electrooptical measurements of liquid crystals doped with DNA, and explain them from the point of view of biological applications. These recent approaches suggest that these biomaterials may be applicable in the electronic device industry and should be considered as an interesting material with their physical properties having the potential to create or refine an industrial product. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-699c1e2fbebc4d299042c633f2133afe2022-12-21T19:26:05ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492013-04-011844703471710.3390/molecules18044703Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid CrystalsKengo SakaguchiHirokazu FurueUrara SugaiYasutaka SekiKazuki IwabataNowadays, chemically synthesized proteins and peptides are attractive building blocks and have potential in many important applications as biomaterials. In this review, applications of biomaterials to thermotropic liquid crystals are discussed. The review covers the improvement of the performance of liquid crystal displays using liquid crystal physical gels consisting of a liquid crystal and amino acid-based gelators, and also new functionalization of liquid crystals. Moreover, the influence of DNA, which is one of the more attractive biomaterials, dispersed in thermotropic liquid crystals and its potential use in the liquid crystal industry is described. In addition, we found interesting results during electrooptical measurements of liquid crystals doped with DNA, and explain them from the point of view of biological applications. These recent approaches suggest that these biomaterials may be applicable in the electronic device industry and should be considered as an interesting material with their physical properties having the potential to create or refine an industrial product.http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/18/4/4703liquid crystalbiomaterialDNApeptide |
| spellingShingle | Kengo Sakaguchi Hirokazu Furue Urara Sugai Yasutaka Seki Kazuki Iwabata Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals Molecules liquid crystal biomaterial DNA peptide |
| title | Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals |
| title_full | Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals |
| title_fullStr | Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals |
| title_short | Applications of Biomaterials to Liquid Crystals |
| title_sort | applications of biomaterials to liquid crystals |
| topic | liquid crystal biomaterial DNA peptide |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/18/4/4703 |
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