Antipolar ordering of topological defects in active liquid crystals by Oza, Anand U, Dunkel, Joern

“…ATP-driven microtubule-kinesin bundles can self-assemble into two-dimensional active liquid crystals (ALCs) that exhibit a rich creation and annihilation dynamics of topological defects, reminiscent of particle-pair production processes in quantum systems. …”
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30 to 50 ns liquid-crystal optical switches by Osgood, Richard M., Kimball, B. R., Geis, Michael W., Turner, George W., Lyszczarz, Theodore M., Molnar, Richard J.

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Light scattering study of highly swollen lyotropic liquid crystal by Zhang, Chao-Yang

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Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Thermotropic Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanocomposites by Kim, Jun Young

“…This paper focuses on the fabrication via simple melt blending of thermotropic liquid crystal polyester (TLCP) nanocomposites reinforced with a very small quantity of modified carbon nanotube (CNT) and the unique effects of the modified CNT on the physical properties of the nanocomposites. …”
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Flow-induced periodic chiral structures in an achiral nematic liquid crystal by Zhang, Qing, Wang, Weiqiang, Zhou, Shuang, Zhang, Rui, Bischofberger, Irmgard

“…Achiral nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals have been reported to break mirror symmetry under strong surface or geometric constraints. …”
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Photoalignment Layers for Liquid Crystals from the Di-π-methane Rearrangement by Cox, Jason R., Simpson, Jeffrey H., Swager, Timothy Manning

“…Photoalignment of nematic liquid crystals is demonstrated using a di-π-methane rearrangement of a designed polymer. …”
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Liquid crystal polarimetry for metastability exchange optical pumping of [superscript 3]He by Maxwell, James D, Epstein, Charles S., Milner, Richard G

“…This apparatus measures the circular polarization of this very dim discharge light using a nematic liquid crystal wave retarder (LCR) and a high-gain, transimpedance amplified Si photodiode. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of fibers with built-in liquid crystal channels and electrodes for transverse incident-light modulation by Wei, Lei, Sorin, Fabien, Lestoquoy, Guillaume, Fink, Yoel, Stolyarov, Alexander Mark, Joannopoulos, John

“…We report on an all-in-fiber liquid crystal (LC) structure designed for the modulation of light incident transverse to the fiber axis. …”
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High-resolution calorimetric study of the nematic to smectic- A transition in aligned liquid crystal–aerosil gels by Garland, Carl W., Iannacchione, G. S.

“…High-resolution ac calorimetry has been used to study the nematic to smectic-A (N-SmA) phase transition in the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB) confined in aligned colloidal aerosil gels. …”
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Smectic-A and smectic-C phases and phase transitions in 8̅ S5 liquid-crystal-aerosil gels by Garland, Carl W., Freelon, Byron, Ramazanoglu, M., Chung, P. J., Page, R. N., Lo, Yuan-Tse, Valdivia, P., Birgeneau, R. J.

“…High-resolution x-ray scattering studies of the nonpolar thermotropic liquid crystal 4-n-pentylphenylthiol-4′-n-octyloxybenzoate (8̅ S5) in aerosil gel nanonetworks reveal that the aerosil-induced disorder significantly alters both the nematic to smectic-A and smectic-A to smectic-C phase transitions. …”
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Enhanced spatial state feedback for night vision goggle displays by Bachelder, E. N., Hansman, R. John

“…The visual scenery was displayed to subjects using a helmet-mounted virtual reality device that had a 40 X 50 degree field-of-view liquid crystal display…”
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Smectic A mesophases from luminescent sandic platinum(II) mesogens by Venkatesan, Koushik, Kouwer, Paul H. J., Swager, Timothy M., Krikorian, Markrete, Voll, Constantin-Chri Alexander, Yoon, Maryam A., Swager, Timothy M

“…Square planar platinum(II) thienyl pyridyl complexes with board-shaped structures assemble into lamellar (SmA) liquid crystal phases at elevated temperatures. Liquid crystals of this type are expected to have stronger biaxial correlations than typical calamitic mesogens. …”
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Finite element simulation of electrorheological fluids by Rhyou, Chanryeol, 1973-

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Reusing Personal Computer Devices - Good or Bad for the Environment? by Sahni, Sahil, Boustani, Avid, Gutowski, Timothy G., Graves, Stephen C.

“…Contrary to the common belief of reuse leading to energy savings, with the advent of more efficient laptops and liquid crystal displays (LCD), reuse of an old personal computer device can lead to relative energy expenditure. …”
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Reusing Personal Computer Devices – Good or Bad for the Environment? by Sahni, Sahil, Boustani, Avid, Gutowski, Timothy G., Graves, Stephen C.

“…Contrary to the common belief of reuse leading to energy savings, with the advent of more efficient laptops and liquid crystal displays (LCD), reuse of an old personal computer device can lead to relative energy expenditure. …”
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Monte Carlo determination of the low-energy constants of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg model with spatial anisotropy by Jiang, Fu-Jiun, Kampfer, Florian, Nyfeler, M.

“…Motivated by the possible mechanism for the pinning of the electronic liquid crystal direction in YBa2Cu3O6.45 [YBa subscript 2 Cu supscript 3 O subscript 6.45] as proposed by Pardini et al. …”
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Depth of Field Analysis for Multilayer Automultiscopic Displays by Lanman, Douglas R., Wetzstein, G., Hirsch, M., Raskar, Ramesh

“…With the re-emergence of stereoscopic displays, through polarized glasses for theatrical presentations and shuttered liquid crystal eyewear in the home, automultiscopic displays have received increased attention. …”
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Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in bacterial vortex lattices by Wioland, Hugo, Woodhouse, Francis G., Goldstein, Raymond E., Dunkel, Joern

“…Examples range from the liquid-crystal-like arrangements of bacterial colonies [6, 7], microbial suspensions [8, 9] and tissues [10] to the coherent macro-scale dynamics in schools of fish [11] and flocks of birds [12]. …”
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BiDi screen: a thin, depth-sensing LCD for 3D interaction using light fields by Hirsch, Matthew Waggener, Lanman, Douglas R., Holtzman, Henry N., Raskar, Ramesh

“…A large-format image sensor is placed slightly behind the liquid crystal layer. Together, the image sensor and LCD form a mask-based light field camera, capturing an array of images equivalent to that produced by a camera array spanning the display surface. …”
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Polarization fields: dynamic light field display using multi-layer LCDs by Lanman, Douglas R., Wetzstein, Gordon, Heidrich, Wolfgang, Raskar, Ramesh, Hirsch, Matthew Waggener

“…Such displays consist of a stacked set of liquid crystal panels with a single pair of crossed linear polarizers. …”
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