Liquid Crystals

Article	Citations
Taylor & Francis Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	75
Columnar liquid crystalline phases of surfactant-DNA complexes	63
Chirality exists in the isotropic liquid above blue phase III	57
Optical sensor for butylamine vapour based on the photonic structure infiltrated by liquid crystal	52
Mesomorphic, magnetic and DFT studies of biphenyl-based molecule with various substituted anilines	46
Tunable spectral manifestation of Tamm plasmon-polaritons in a hybrid structure with 2d black phosphorus in the terahertz range	43
Preparation of triple-layer polymer dispersed liquid crystal films with progressive driving functionality	28
Enlarging the colour gamut of LCD with YAG-LED by using a liquid crystal based polarisation interference filter	27
Preface	27
Voltage-controlled surface plasmon in a flexoelectric nematic liquid crystal cell	26
Equilibrium locations of defects in two-dimensional configurations of the NLC director field	26
Novel fluorescence liquid crystals based on thiophene-vinylnitrile Schiff-base derivatives	24
Cholesterol based mesogenic Schiff’s base derivatives with carbonate linkage: Synthesis, characterisation and photoluminescence study	24
The influence of the side-arms structure on the properties of the liquid crystal dimers centred on mandelic acid	24
Effects of ferroelectric nanoparticles on smectic-A to chiral smectic-C* phase transition	21
Unsymmetrical Coumarin based dimeric liquid crystals: Synthesis, Characterization, Mesomorphic investigation, Photoluminescence and Thermal conductivity	21
Design of 5CB liquid crystal antenna for tunable microwave frequency applications	20
Optical approaches for the simple and sensitive detection of aflatoxin B 1 via a liquid crystal aptasensor	18
Cybotactic nematic liquid crystal – an overview	18
Ferroelectric nematic fluids as spontaneous polarization field for enhanced orientational-dependent second-harmonic generation	17
Enhancing morphological, electro-optical and dielectric properties of polymer-dispersed liquid crystal by doping of disperse Orange 25 dye in LC E7	17
Preparation of a novel ternary photosensitive polyimide for liquid crystal alignment films	16
Generalization of the Maier-Saupe theory to the ferroelectric nematic phase	16
Colorful patterned polyacrylate films prepared using cholesteric liquid-crystalline mixtures with a smectic order	16
Investigation of electro-optical and dielectric properties of pure and dispersed nematic liquid-crystal	16

Luminance and chrominance parameters through image analysis in ferroelectric liquid crystals	15
Planar and Vertical Alignment of Rod-like and Bent-core Liquid Crystals Using Functionalized Indium Tin Oxide Substrates	15
Intensity-dependent optical nonlinearities of composite materials made of ionic liquid crystal glass and bimetallic nanoparticles	15
Distinctive features of pretransitional behaviour between nematic phases as revealed by DDM	14
Optical Tamm states in a hybrid structure with a holographic polymer-liquid crystal grating	14
Rheological behaviour and antibacterial activities of MWCNTs/ lyotropic liquid crystals based nanocolloids	13
Enhancement of electro-optical properties and phase transition temperature of thermotropic liquid crystal 5CB by doping with 4-n-pentylbenzoic acid	13
Molecular organization and molecular order of two rod-like smectogens in mesophases	13
A label-free 5CB-based aptasensor for highly selective optical detection of amoxicillin residue in freshwater samples	13
Young’s interference experiment using self-aligned liquid crystal optical control devices	12
Chiral ferronematic liquid crystals: a physico-chemical analysis of phase transitions and induced helical twisting	12
Enhancement of the physical parameters due to the dispersion of functionalised gold nanoparticles in a room temperature nematic liquid crystal	12
Liquid-crystal-based resonant cavities as a strategy to design low-threshold electrically-tunable lasers	12
Nematic liquid crystals in lens shape geometry	12
The role of sub-regional electrostatic spinning nanofiber loaded with WO 3 nanoparticle in modulating electro-optic performance and stepwise display of polymer dispe	12
The influence of core fluorination on the phase behaviour of rod-like mesogens	12
Molecular scale insights from NMR studies of hybrid systems formed via doping silver QDs in 6CHBT liquid crystal: a quantitative investigation of their optoelectronic properties	11
Heat-driven vortical flow in microsized liquid crystal film	11
Stability of a split-core configuration induced by saddle-splay elasticity in a submicron nematic liquid crystal spherical droplet	11
Phosphorescent Pt(II) complexes of C^N^N type tridentate ligands augmented for liquid crystallinity	11
Luminescent liquid crystals: from supramolecular plant dyes to emissive flavylium salts	11
Preface	11
Effect of the varying repulsive core of Gay–Berne pair potential on the structure and freezing transition in a two-dimensional system of soft ellipses	11
Influence of the dispersed silver nanoparticles size and concentration on the properties of 6CB nematic	11
Magnetorheological liquid-crystalline polymers with magnetic tetrachloroferrate ions based on polyvinyl chloride	11
Effect of dye doping on the thermal and optical properties of cholesteric liquid crystals	11
Anopore confinement in the cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimer CB7CB. A dielectric study	11
Tunable optical, electro-optical and dielectric properties of eco-friendly graphene quantum dots-nematic liquid crystal composites	11
Giant flexoelectric effect with liquid crystal dimer CB7CB between concentric cylinders	11
Inderdigitation, double twist, and topological defects in a system of hard lollipops	11
Effect of different curing conditions on the electro-optical properties of directional polymerisation monomer based polymer\liquid crystal composites	11
Chemical and physical aspects of recent bent-shaped liquid crystals exhibiting chiral and achiral mesophases	11
Effect of hydrophobic aerosil dispersions on the Goldstone mode dynamics in ferroelectric liquid crystal near the point of polarisation sign reversal	11
Enhanced liquid crystal performance through alkoxybenzoic acid doping	10
Exploring the role of adamantane core in the mesophase formation of trimers	10
Synthesis, mesomorphic behaviour and luminescence of novel dithienopyrrole-based nematic liquid crystals	10
Marangoni flow across different phases in cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals under temperature gradient	10
Preparation of a double-layer liquid crystal optical shutter with fluorescent properties and its ultraviolet shielding screening properties	10
Optimization of image writer modes for optically rewritable electronic paper	10
A convenient one-pot synthesis, and characterisation of the ω-bromo-1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4’-yl) alkanes (CBnBr)	10
Optical properties of Heliconical Cholesterics: effects of losses and photonic density of states	10
Synthesis, chiral separation and physical properties of the cinnamic acid derivatives exhibiting short-pitch cholesteric and TGB phases	10
Density functional theory of freezing transition in a binary mixture of spheres and soft-ellipsoids	10
The effect of different photoluminescent side-chain length on the phase behaviour of chiral liquid crystal polymer	10
Novel liquid crystalline fluorene and fluorenone MIDA boronates: influence of alkyl vs alkoxy side chains on the mesomorphic properties	10
Bent-shaped dimers with chiral spacer – unravelling the potential of the naphthyl mesogenic unit	10
Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O. m and CB8O. m series	9
Synthesis and phase behaviour of a class of comb-like cholesteric azobenzene liquid crystalline polymers	9
Composite stability and electro-optical properties of carbon nanotubes/5CB-based nematic hybrid liquid crystals	9
Kinetics of photoinduced phase retardation in azo dye layer	9

Tunable liquid crystal double-layer frequency selective surface with wide transmission band and small insertion loss	9
Tight focusing of laser light using microlens array combined with radially polarised light converter	9
A recyclable, interchangeable optical switch with a PDLC-PVA-PSCLC structure and a low-voltage drive system	9
Ferroelectric chiral nematic liquid crystals: new photonic materials with multiple bandgaps controllable by low electric fields	9
Azopyridine-based hydrogen-bonded liquid crystals with thioether tail	9
Constructing liquid crystalline elastomer multi-fold gratings with side-on epoxy liquid crystalline monomers	9
Stability, structure, compressibility factor, excess free energy and density profile of hard prolate pear shape fluids	8
Effect of SiO 2 -doped nanoparticle/electrostatic spinning system on the electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystals for smart windows	8
Luminous and fluorescent cyanobiphenyls exhibiting super-cooled nematic phases	8
A hypothesis for the architecture of plant secondary cell walls, involving liquid crystalline arrays of microtubules in the cortex of the cell	8
Can even-membered liquid crystal dimers exhibit the twist-bend nematic phase? The preparation and properties of disulphide and thioether linked dimers	8
Synergistically controlled in situ growth of silver nanoparticles leading to organization of anisotropic liquid crystalline medium	8
Reaction-induced liquid crystalline polybenzoxazine thermosets containing rosin amine grafts	8
Effect of alkyloxy substituents on mesomorphic and photophysical properties of star-shaped tristriazolotriazines	8
Impact of dispersed graphene oxide on thermodynamical, optical, electro optical and dielectric properties of nematic liquid crystal	8
Improving experimental procedures for assessing electrical properties of advanced liquid crystal materials	8
Fertile metastability	8
A new generation of ferroelectric liquid crystals with homogeneous and shock-stable orientation	8
Sub-structures and phase transitions of bi-tilted smectic C G in dimer liquid crystals induced by amide functionalised graphene oxide	8
Investigation on the critical behaviour in the vicinity of the smectic-A to re-entrant nematic-phase transition	7
Multifunctional multifocal lens for simultaneous edge and polarisation imaging	7
New imidazo[2,1-b][1,3,4]thiadiazole mesogens: synthesis, characterisation and study their optical-thermo behaviors	7
4’-pentyl-4-cyanobiphenyl - 5CB	7
Obituary	7
Trans-LCPG films with self-assembly support of gel networks	7
Surface alignment of nematic liquid crystals by direct laser writing of photopolymer alignment layers	7
Preparation of cholesteric polymer networks with broadband reflection memory effect	7
The influence of the ring system with mono/diester and imine links, and terminal unsaturated carbon chains on mesomorphism and their quantum-mechanical study	7
New multi-fluorinated benzofuran liquid crystals with large dielectric anisotropy and improved solubility	7
Effect of doped SiO 2 microspheres on the high temperature properties of PDLC films	7
Organic electronic applications and charge transport mechanism in novel discotic liquid crystals	7
Continuous modulation of geometric phase via electrically tuning the in-plane orientation of nematic liquid crystal	6
Flexible liquid crystal micro-lens arrays for curved integral imaging 2D/3D convertible display	6
Electrochromic reverse-mode PDLCs as smart windows	6
Graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide in the anisotropic media of nematic liquid crystals 4’-pentyl-4-cyano-biphenyl	6
Accurate modelling of the optics of high resolution liquid crystal devices: a reconfigurable liquid crystal grating	6
Biphenyls embedded Schiff base-bis esters: self-assembling behaviour, impact of additional aromatic ring and ester linkage and their DFT investigations	6
Synthesis and physico-chemical properties of dilateral flouro azo/ester four aromatic ring mesogens and their mixtures of liquid crystals	6
The morphology and the electro-optical properties of PDLCs cured in the presence of electric fields	6
A liquid crystal leaky-wave antenna with fixed-frequency beam scanning and open-stop-band suppression	6
Pseudo-polar order in the tilted smectic phases of bent-core hockey stick shaped molecules	6
Liquid crystalline behaviour of new dimers containing coumarin and biphenyl moieties and enhancement of their thermal conductivity: liquid crystal-nanoparticles	6
A confined rod: mean field theory for hard rod-like particles	6
2,3-per-acylated α and β cyclodextrins as inducers of helical liquid crystalline phases	6
1,2,3-Triazole lamellar liquid crystal and its non-covalent palladium complex dimer: structure, mesomorphism and self-assembly properties	6
Flexible bistable polymer stabilised cholesteric texture light shutter display	6
A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal vitrified at room temperature	6
Thermotropic liquid crystal doped with silica, silica grafted with aniline (ANI@SiO2) and polyaniline (PANI@SiO2)	6
Experimental measurements of the spatial correlation lengths of the director axis fluctuations of nematic liquid crystals	6
Dispersion of thiol capped AuNPs in rufigallol derivative discotic liquid crystal-Enhanced one dimensional electrical conductivity	6
Theoretical model for the Frank elastic moduli in the intercalated SmA b phase of bent-shaped dimers	6
Influence of different small styryl molecules on electro-optical characteristics of reverse-mode polymer stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices	6
Rupture of thin nematic walls between isotropic droplets of the same mesogenic material	5
Rack-gear structures in columnar liquid crystal phases of trialkoxybenzyl pentafluorobenzoates and their influences on intercolumnar interdigitation and macroscopic morphologies	5
Ionic liquid crystal elastomers for actuators, sensors, and organic transistors	5
Smectic layers reorientation with stripes and heliconical structure in surface stabilised ferroelectric liquid crystal	5
Mesophase behaviour of 1,2,3-triazole-based nematic liquid crystals influenced by varying alkyl chains and halogen atom substitution	5
The influence of the benzimidazole-based nematic liquid crystals containing ethynyl and difluoro-substitution on mesomorphic and birefringence properties	5
Cholesteric liquid crystalline polysiloxanes containing furan ring with selective reflection – synthesis and properties	5
Probing cytoplasmic streaming using liquid crystal droplets	5
Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals	5
The effect of doping sulphhydryl-functionalised silica with different diameters on the electro-optical properties of PDLC	5
Gamma-radiation exposure-induced modifications in the thermal, dielectric, and electro-optical properties of two-room temperature antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures	5
Triphenylene discotic liquid crystals: biphenyls, synthesis, and the search for nematic systems	5
Multi-field driven thermochromic films and preparation of multi-color patterns	5
Ferroelectric nematic phase in the system of perfectly aligned cylindrically symmetric rods	5
Improvement of rewriting time of optically driven liquid crystal display by azo-dye doping	5
Electrooptics of mm-scale polar domains in the ferroelectric nematic phase	5
Synthesis and characterisation of novel aromatic ester swallow-tailed cholesteric liquid crystal polymers	5
Low driving voltage reverse-mode polymer-stabilised cholesteric liquid crystal devices using small phenylacetylene molecule	5
High-quality deformed lying helix in chiral LC on surface with periodic alignment prepared by two-step optical treatment	5
Linear and circular dichroisms of cholesteric liquid crystals in a longitudinal external magnetic field	5
Circularly polarised luminescence of cholesteric polymer composite with high concentration of europium complex	4
Thermotropic liquid crystalline medicine: establishment of liquid crystalline properties and the X-ray phase structure analysis of immunosuppressant 2-amino-2-[2-(4-alkylphenyl)ethyl]propane-1,3-diol	4
TiO2 doped polymer dispersed and stabilised liquid crystal smart film with high contrast ratio, low driving voltage and short response time	4
Multi-reactive mesogen system for polymer-stabilised vertical alignment liquid crystal displays	4
Structural optimisation of lactic acid derivatives to obtain enhanced ferroelectric properties in smectic phases	4
Influence of chiral monomer concentration on thermo-optical properties of glass-forming cyclic siloxane side chain liquid crystal oligomers	4
Deviation from the prediction of the Maier-Saupe theory of mixtures of charged discotic Gay-Berne and Lennard-Jones particles	4
“Liquid crystalline compounds containing lateral thiol group: synthesis, characterisation, its mesomorphic properties and DFT studies”	4

Unknots, knots, links and necklaces made of dislocations in cholesterics	4
The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research	4
Preface	4
Dynamic geometric phase holography based on in-plane switching liquid crystal	4
Investigation of the effect of doping of newly synthesised bismuth ferrite nanoparticles on the dielectric property of the negative anisotropic nematic liquid crystal	4
Study on the application and performance of liquid crystal emulsion system in sunscreen products	4
Uniformly aligned liquid crystal molecules on reformed poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) layers driven by ion beam exposure	4
Birth and annihilation of topological defects on the nematic–isotropic interface during droplet coalescence	4
Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of laterally fluoro azo/ ester based on four ring compounds with a wide range mesophase thermal stability	4
Liquid crystal and emulsifying properties of carboxymethyl glucoside as water-soluble surfactant	4
Synthesis of achiral rod-shaped triazolic molecules and investigation of their striped texture and propeller-patterned nematic droplets	4
Comparative studies of DFT and experimental Raman spectra of pure 5O.14 liquid crystalline compound	4
Liquid crystal polymers with dual properties of fluorescence and selective reflection-design, synthesis and characterisation	4
Dynamically color-changing polymer-dispersed liquid crystals containing ionic liquid for smart window applications	4
Influence of the counterion on the structure and stability of the smectic C phase in ionic liquid crystals	4
A predictive theoretical model for stretch-induced instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers	4
Separation of liquid crystalline racemic mixtures obtained on the basis of (R,S)-2-hexanol on amylose tris(3-chloro-5-methylphenylcarbamate) covalently immobilised on silica in high-performance liquid	4
Preparation and characterisation of liquid crystal elastomer films with selective reflectivity	4
The ferroelectric nematic phase: an optimum liquid crystal candidate for nonlinear optics	4
A splay-twist nematic phase of bent-shaped mesogens	4
Chiral fluorescent liquid crystal polymers containing 4-bromo-1,8-naphthalimide – synthesis and properties	4
Machine learning studies for liquid crystal texture recognition	4
Effect of polymer concentration on the electro-optical, dielectric and photoluminescence properties of confined ferroelectric liquid crystals composites	4
Unsymmetrical liquid crystalline dimers containing biphenyl moiety: synthesis, characterisation, mesomorphic study and DFT studies	4
Synthesis of β-cyclodextrin Functionalized silica nanoparticles and their effects on the dielectric, optical and electro-optic properties of nematic liquid crystal	4
Polymer dispersed liquid crystals devices: role of photopolymerisation to control defect orientation, optical and electro-optical properties	4
A hybrid ionic liquid crystal comprising imidazolium surfactant-graphene oxide	4
The Influence of quantum dots on the optical properties of a room temperature cholesteric liquid crystal	4
A tribute to Helmut Ringsdorf	4
Dielectric reorientation and electrohydrodynamic instabilities in dichroic-dye-doped dual-cell liquid crystal smart window	4
Structural variants ofRM734in the design of splay nematic materials	4
Study on the influence of oils on the formation of liquid crystal structure of hydrogenated lecithin system	4
Molecular curvature and the twist-bend liquid crystal phases: the effect of the spacer	4
Nematic and twist-bend nematic drops of surfactant-doped CB7CB as colloidal inclusions: topological defects and field effects	4
Effects of quantum dots on the properties of ferroelectric liquid crystal	4
Inversion ring in chromonic twisted hedgehogs: theory and experiment	4
Synthesis of cholesterol containing unsymmetrical dimers: a new series of liquid crystals	4