Highly birefringent nematic and chiral nematic liquid crystals by Woon, K.L., O'Neill, M., Vlachos, P., Aldred, M.P., Kelly, S.M.

“…Chiral groups are incorporated into the end chains giving a chiral nematic liquid crystal with a very wide stopband in the visible region. …”

Electronic Charge Transport in Extended Nematic Liquid Crystals by Woon, K.L., Aldred, M.P., Vlachos, P., Mehl, G.H., Stirner, T., Kelly, S.M., O'Neill, M.

“…We report a systematic study of charge transport in a range of low-molar-mass and extended (having at least six aromatic rings) nematic liquid crystals, some of which are reactive mesogens, with a high degree of shape anisotropy, i.e., the length-to-width (aspect) ratio is exceptionally high. …”

Guerbet glycolipids from mannose: liquid crystals properties by Patrick, Melonney, Zahid, Noor Idayu Mat, Kriechbaum, Manfred, Hashim, Rauzah

“…Using mannose as the sugar head, five Guerbet glycolipids with chain ranges from C 8 to C 24 were synthesised and studied for their liquid crystal behaviour. Differential scanning calorimetry, optical polarising microscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering were employed to determine the thermal, phase and structure properties. …”

In situ templating of PbS nanorods in reverse hexagonal liquid crystal by Huang, N.M., Shahidan, R., Khiew, P.S., Peter, L., Kan, C.S.

“…We report the in situ templating of lead sulfides (PbS) with mean diameter of 5.7 ± 1.0 nm in the reverse hexagonal phase liquid crystal using lead nitrate and thioacetamide as the reactants. …”

Blue phase liquid crystal: Strategies for phase stabilization and device development by Rahman, M.D.A., Said, S.M., Balamurugan, S.

“…The blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) is a highly ordered liquid crystal (LC) phase found very close to the LC-isotropic transition. …”
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Investigation of host liquid crystal composition on polymer stabilised blue phase properties by Mohd Said, S., Rahman, M.A., Yamana, I., Kimura, M.

“…Polymer stabilised blue phase liquid crystals (PSBPLCs) have been investigated for photonics and display applications for the following reasons: optical isotropy in the dark state, ease of fabrication due to the omission of the alignment layer, and sub-millisecond response length. …”
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Optical and thermal characterization of silver nanoparticles dispersion in lamellar liquid crystal matrix by Mohd Yasin, Siti Mariah, Johan, Mohd Rafie

“…The lamellar lyotropic liquid crystal (LLLC) was used as a host to assemble silver nanopar- ticles (AgNPs) through in situ technique. …”

Line defects and temperature effects in liquid crystal tunable planar Bragg gratings by Snow, B.D., Adikan, Faisal Rafiq Mahamd, Gates, J.C., Gawith, C.B.E., Dyadyusha, A., Kaczmarek, M., Smith, P.G.R.

“…Liquid crystal tunable planar Bragg Gratings produced by Direct UV Writing are capable of wavelength tuning of over 100GHz. …”

In situ polymerization of conducting polyaniline in bicontinuous cubic phase of lyotropic liquid crystal by Huang, N.M., Khiew, P.S., Radiman, S., Kan, C.S., Ahmad Md, S.

Synthesis and characterization of copper sulfide nanoparticles in hexagonal phase lyotropic liquid crystal by Khiew, P.S., Radiman, S., Huang, N.M., Ahamd, M.S.

“…The optical observation showed that the hexagonal phase liquid crystal system still presented the characteristics spherulitic and focal conic texture after the growth reaction. …”

In situ synthesis of mesoporous CdS nanoparticles in ternary cubic phase lyotropic liquid crystal by Huang, Nay Ming, Kan, C.S., Radiman, S.

“…An in situ technique for the synthesis of CdS nanoparticles in a ternary lyotropic cubic phase liquid crystal has been carried out. The extremely viscous cubic phase liquid-crystal system consists of poly(oxyethylene)10 nonly phenol ether as non-ionic surfactant, octane as oil phase and an aqueous phase containing reactant ions (Cd2+ and S2-). …”

A reevaluation of the epimeric and anomeric relationship of glucosides and galactosides in thermotropic liquid crystal self-assemblies by Hashim, R., Mirzadeh, S.M., Heidelberg, T., Minamikawa, H., Yoshiaki, T., Sugimura, A.

“…However, recent results on a series of Guerbet glycosides have indicated similar liquid crystal clearing temperatures for pure p-glucosides and the corresponding alpha-galactosides. …”

DFT studies of structural–electronic correlation for the HAT6 discotic liquid crystal columnar stacking by Mahmood, Mohamad Syafie, Said, Suhana Mohd, Chatterjee, Abhijit, Sabri, Mohd Faizul Mohd, Mainal, Azizah, Daud, Mohammad Noh, Sairi, Nor Asrina

“…Discotic liquid crystals (DLC) have shown much promise for 1-D charge transport and relatively high charge mobility due to π-π conjugation of their cores. …”

Stokes-parameter analysis of the polarization of light transmitted through a chiral nematic liquid-crystal cell by Woon, K.L., O'Neill, M., Richards, G.J., Aldred, M.P., Kelly, S.M.

“…The model shows that this results from refractive-index mismatching at the liquid-crystal–alignment-layer interface, but a small linearly polarized component remains even with optimized index matching. …”

Composite liquid crystal-polymer electrolytes in dye-sensitised solar cells: effects of mesophase alkyl chain length by Kamarudin, Muhammad Akmal, Khan, Ammar Ahmed, Said, Suhana Mohd, Qasim, Malik M., Wilkinson, Timothy David

“…The doping of polymer electrolytes (PEs) with liquid crystal (LC) materials has been shown to improve the performance of dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). …”

Super Stability of Ag Nanoparticle in Crystalline Lamellar (Lc) Liquid Crystal Matrix at Different pH Environment by Mohd Yasin, Siti Mariah, Badruddin, Irfan Anjum, Johan, Mohd Rafie

“…The symmetry concept in this paper is related to the natural self-assembly of noble metal nanoparticles in the long range periodic structure of liquid crystal (LC). The current study deliberates the effect of pH on the stability of nanoparticles (NPs) in the lamellar phase of a lyotropic LC environment. …”

Synthesis and characterization new Polymerizable Liquid Crystal Monomer and its atom transfer Radical Polymerization for novel side chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers by Sheikh, M.R.K., Masuyama, S., Tokita, M., Watanabe, J.

“…We synthesized a new polymerizable liquid crystal (LC) monomer, which contain naphthalene ring in the mesogen. …”
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Erratum to “Film thickness effects on calibrations of a narrowband thermochromic liquid crystal” [Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 33 (2009) 561–578] by Abdullah, Nadia, Abu Talib, Abd Rahim, Saiah, Helmey Ramdhaney Mohd, Jaafar, Abdul Aziz, Salleh, Mohamad Amran Mohd

“…Thermochromic liquid crystals (TLCs) have been widely employed by researchers in heat transfer and fluid flow communities as a reliable and non-intrusive temperature measurement tool due to their unique optical properties such as birefringence, optical activity, circular dichroism and selective reflection of colours in the visible spectrum as function of temperature. …”

Stokes parameter studies of spontaneous emission from chiral nematic liquid crystals as a one-dimensional photonic stopband crystal: Experiment and theory by Woon, K.L., O'Neill, M., Richards, G.J., Aldred, M.P., Kelly, S.M.

“…The helical structure of uniformly aligned chiral nematic liquid crystals results in a photonic stopband for only one sense of circular polarization. …”

Studies on relation between columnar order and electrical conductivity in HAT6 discotic liquid crystals using temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy and DFT calculations by Sahamir, Shahrir Razey, Said, Suhana Mohd, Sabri, Mohd Faizul Mohd, Mahmood, Mohamand Syafie, Kamarudin, Muhammad Akmal, Moutanabbir, Oussama

“…The vibrational property of 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexakis(hexyloxy)triphenylene (HAT6) discotic liquid crystal (DLC) material is investigated in this research by using temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy technique. …”