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  1. Innovative Applications Enabled by the Versatile Structural Color of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
  2. Circularly Polarized Structural Color Pigments Tunable Across the Full Visible Spectrum
  3. Oligomer‐Derived Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Biocompatible Operating Temperature
  4. Arbitrary and active colouring of solar cells with negligible loss of efficiency
  5. Optical crack detection and assessment using cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers
  6. Water‐Templated Growth of Interfacial Superglue Polymers for Tunable Thin Films and In Situ Fluid Encapsulation
  7. Topological defects as nucleation points of the nematic-isotropic phase transition in liquid crystal shells
  8. Tunable templating of photonic microparticles via liquid crystal order-guided adsorption of amphiphilic polymers in emulsions
  9. How smectic-A and smectic-C liquid crystals resolve confinement-induced frustration in spherical shells
  10. The good, the bad and the ugly faces of cyanobiphenyl mesogens in selected tracks of fundamental and applied liquid crystal research
  11. Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors with Tunable Color from Single‐Domain Cellulose Nanocrystal Microshells
  12. Tunable templating of photonic microparticles via liquid crystal order-guided adsorption of amphiphilic polymers in emulsions
  13. Multiresponsive Cylindrically Symmetric Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers Templated by Tubular Confinement
  14. Pixelating Structural Color with Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors
  15. Impact of mesogenic aromaticity and cyano termination on the alignment and stability of liquid crystal shells
  16. Liquid crystal elastomer actuators and sensors: Glimpses of the past, the present and perhaps the future
  17. Continuous Flow Microfluidic Production of Arbitrarily Long Tubular Liquid Crystal Elastomer Peristaltic Pump Actuators
  18. Unclonable human-invisible machine vision markers leveraging the omnidirectional chiral Bragg diffraction of cholesteric spherical reflectors
  19. Robust cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer fibres for mechanochromic textiles
  20. Lipid islands on liquid crystal shells
  21. Quantitative volatile organic compound sensing with liquid crystal core fibers
  22. Electrospinning Ethanol–Water Solutions of Poly(Acrylic Acid): Nonlinear Viscosity Variations and Dynamic Taylor Cone Behavior
  23. Stable Electrospinning of Core-Functionalized Coaxial Fibers Enabled by the Minimum-Energy Interface Given by Partial Core–Sheath Miscibility
  24. Topological Defect-Guided Regular Stacking of Focal Conic Domains in Hybrid-Aligned Smectic Liquid Crystal Shells
  25. Measuring the Anisotropy in Interfacial Tension of Nematic Liquid Crystals
  26. Linking physical objects to their digital twins via fiducial markers designed for invisibility to humans
  27. Liquid crystal elastomer shells with topological defect-defined actuation: Complex shape morphing, opening/closing, and unidirectional rotation
  28. Encoding Hidden Information onto Surfaces Using Polymerized Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors
  29. Interrogating helical nanorod self-assembly with fractionated cellulose nanocrystal suspensions
  30. Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles
  31. Responsive Photonic Liquid Marbles
  32. Dynamic tuning of the director field in liquid crystal shells using block copolymers
  33. High-contrast imaging of 180° ferroelectric domains by optical microscopy using ferroelectric liquid crystals
  34. Disruption of Electrospinning due to Water Condensation into the Taylor Cone
  35. From Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Formation and Kinetic Arrest to Photonic Bandgap Films Using Suspensions of Cellulose Nanocrystals
  36. Facile Anisotropic Deswelling Method for Realizing Large‐Area Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Elastomers with Uniform Structural Color and Broad‐Range Mechanochromic Response
  37. Realignment of Liquid Crystal Shells Driven by Temperature-Dependent Surfactant Solubility
  38. Liquid crystal elastomer shell actuators with negative order parameter
  39. Isotropic–isotropic phase separation and spinodal decomposition in liquid crystal–solvent mixtures
  40. Elastic sheath–liquid crystal core fibres achieved by microfluidic wet spinning
  41. Sub-second dynamic phototuning of alignment in azodendrimer-doped nematic liquid crystal shells
  42. Influence of head group and chain length of surfactants used for stabilising liquid crystal shells
  43. Micrometer-Scale Porous Buckling Shell Actuators Based on Liquid Crystal Networks
  44. Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells as Enabling Material for Information-Rich Design and Architecture
  45. Fractionation of cellulose nanocrystals: enhancing liquid crystal ordering without promoting gelation
  46. Electrospun Composite Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers
  47. Microfluidic Tensiometry Technique for the Characterization of the Interfacial Tension between Immiscible Liquids
  48. Through the Spherical Looking-Glass: Asymmetry Enables Multicolored Internal Reflection in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Shells
  49. Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns
  50. Liquid crystals in micron-scale droplets, shells and fibers
  51. Why organically functionalized nanoparticles increase the electrical conductivity of nematic liquid crystal dispersions
  52. A phenomenological introduction to liquid crystals and colloids
  53. Cholesteric liquid crystal formation in suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals
  54. Introduction
  55. Nanoparticle guests in lyotropic liquid crystals
  56. Taming Liquid Crystal Self-Assembly: The Multifaceted Response of Nematic and Smectic Shells to Polymerization
  57. Correlation between structural properties and iridescent colors of cellulose nanocrystalline films
  58. Enhancing Self-Assembly in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions Using High-Permittivity Solvents
  59. Non-electronic gas sensors from electrospun mats of liquid crystal core fibres for detecting volatile organic compounds at room temperature
  60. High-fidelity spherical cholesteric liquid crystal Bragg reflectors generating unclonable patterns for secure authentication
  61. Equilibrium Liquid Crystal Phase Diagrams and Detection of Kinetic Arrest in Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions
  62. An Introduction to the Physics of Liquid Crystals
  63. Solvent effect on columnar formation in solar-cell geometry
  64. Nanotube networks in liquid crystals
  65. The effects of carbon nanotubes on the clearing transition of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal MHPOBC
  66. Transmission polarized optical microscopy of short-pitch cholesteric liquid crystal shells
  67. Influence of interface stabilisers and surrounding aqueous phases on nematic liquid crystal shells
  68. Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid crystals: impact on conductivity, low-frequency relaxation and electro-optical performance
  69. Ultralong Ordered Nanowires from the Concerted Self-Assembly of Discotic Liquid Crystal and Solvent Molecules
  70. Rod Packing in Chiral Nematic Cellulose Nanocrystal Dispersions Studied by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Laser Diffraction
  71. Dynamic and complex optical patterns from colloids of cholesteric liquid crystal droplets
  72. Multifunctional responsive fibers produced by dual liquid crystal core electrospinning
  73. Influence of Wetting on Morphology and Core Content in Electrospun Core–Sheath Fibers
  74. Liquid Crystals with Nano and Microparticles
  75. Macroscopic Control of Helix Orientation in Films Dried from Cholesteric Liquid‐Crystalline Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions
  76. Effects of carbon nanotubes on a very low surfactant concentration lyotropic liquid crystal host
  77. Tuneable multicoloured patterns from photonic cross-communication between cholesteric liquid crystal droplets
  78. Cellulose nanocrystal-based materials: from liquid crystal self-assembly and glass formation to multifunctional thin films
  79. Liquid crystal functionalization of electrospun polymer fibers
  80. Tuning the defect configurations in nematic and smectic liquid crystalline shells
  81. Morphology and Core Continuity of Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized, Coaxially Electrospun Fiber Mats Tuned via the Polymer Sheath Solution
  82. A new era for liquid crystal research: Applications of liquid crystals in soft matter nano-, bio- and microtechnology
  83. Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Nano- and Microfibers Produced by Electrospinning
  84. Utilizing the Krafft Phenomenon to Generate Ideal Micelle-Free Surfactant-Stabilized Nanoparticle Suspensions
  85. Switchable and responsive liquid crystal-functionalized microfibers produced via coaxial electrospinning
  86. Towards micrometer sized core-shell actuators from liquid crystalline elastomers by a continuous flow synthesis
  87. Towards tunable defect arrangements in smectic liquid crystal shells utilizing the nematic–smectic transition in hybrid-aligned geometries
  88. One-piece micropumps from liquid crystalline core-shell particles
  89. Liquid Crystals in Novel Geometries Prepared by Microfluidics and Electrospinning
  90. Nematic-Smectic Transition under Confinement in Liquid Crystalline Colloidal Shells
  91. Effects of chain branching and chirality on liquid crystalline phases of bent-core molecules: blue phases, de Vries transitions and switching of diastereomeric states
  92. Filament formation in carbon nanotube-doped lyotropic liquid crystals
  93. Towards Efficient Dispersion of Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Liquid Crystals
  94. Self-assembled ordered structures in thin films of HAT5 discotic liquid crystal
  95. Complex Chirality at the Nanoscale
  96. Tailor-designed polyphilic promotors for stabilizing dispersions of carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals
  97. Electrospun microfibres with temperature sensitive iridescence from encapsulated cholesteric liquid crystal
  98. Macroscopic-scale carbon nanotube alignment via self-assembly in lyotropic liquid crystals
  99. Coaxial electrospinning of liquid crystal-containing poly(vinylpyrrolidone) microfibres
  100. Electrolyte Effects on the Stability of Nematic and Lamellar Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases: Colligative and Ion-Specific Aspects
  101. On the balance between syn- and anticlinicity in smectic phases formed by achiral hockey-stick mesogens with and without chiral dopants
  102. Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals
  103. Coaxial electrospinning of microfibres with liquid crystal in the core
  104. Spontaneous macroscopic carbon nanotube alignment via colloidal suspension in hexagonal columnar lyotropic liquid crystals
  105. Antiferroelectric liquid crystals with induced intermediate polar phases and the effects of doping with carbon nanotubes
  106. Order-disorder molecular model of the smectic-A–smectic-Cphase transition in materials with conventional and anomalously weak layer contraction
  107. Carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals as versatile functional materials
  108. Partitioning and reorientational dynamics of phenylalcohols in SDS lyotropic liquid crystalline mesophases: An ALC-μSR study
  109. Molecular model for de Vries type smectic-A–smectic-Cphase transition in liquid crystals
  110. Nanotube Alignment Using Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
  111. Effect of phenyl rings in liquid crystal molecules on SWCNTs studied by Raman spectroscopy
  112. Simultaneous alignment and dispersion of carbon nanotubes with lyotropic liquid crystals
  113. On the change in helix handedness at transitions between the SmC∗ and phases in chiral smectic liquid crystals
  114. Current Topics in Smectic Liquid Crystal Research
  115. The peculiar optic, dielectric and X‐ray diffraction properties of a fluorinated de Vries asymmetric diffuse cone‐model ferroelectric liquid crystal
  116. Electrolyte effects on the nematic–isotropic phase transition in lyotropic liquid crystals
  117. Frustration between syn- and anticlinicity in mixtures of chiral and non-chiral tilted smectic-C-type liquid crystals
  118. A Study of a Bistereogenic Mesogen for the Development of Orthoconic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials
  119. Chiral Smectic C Subphases Induced by Mixing a Bistereogenic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal with a Non-Chiral Liquid Crystal
  120. Demonstration of the antiferroelectric aspect of the helical superstructures in Sm-C*, Sm-Cα*, and Sm-Ca*liquid crystals
  121. Differences between smectic homo‐ and co‐polysiloxanes as a consequence of microphase separation
  122. Generation of frustrated liquid crystal phases by mixing an achiral nematic–smectic-C mesogen with an antiferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystal
  123. Polarity-directed analog electro-optic switching in a low-polarization chiral smectic liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy
  124. A Chameleon Chiral Polar Liquid Crystal:  Rod-Shaped When Nematic, Bent-Shaped When Smectic
  125. On the origin of high optical director tilt in a partially fluorinated orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal mixture
  126. Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with ‘de Vries’-type smectic A*–smectic C* transitions
  127. (–)-Isopinocampheol Substituted Mesogens: An Investigation of the Effect of Bulky Terminal Groups in Chiral Smectic Liquid Crystals
  128. On the phase sequence of antiferroelectric liquid crystals and its relation to orientational and translational order
  129. Tilt plane orientation in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells and the origin of the pretransitional effect
  130. Antiferroelectric liquid-crystal mixture without smectic layer shrinkage at the directSm−A*–Sm−Ca*transition
  131. Optical and x-ray evidence of the “de Vries”Sm−A*–Sm−C*transition in a non-layer-shrinkage ferroelectric liquid crystal with very weak interlayer tilt correlation
  132. Phases, phase transitions and confinement effects in a series of antiferroelectric liquid crystals
  133. Surface- and Field-Induced AFLC Structures Detected by Dielectric Spectroscopy
  134. The dependence on the helical pitch of the antiferroelectric dielectric modes
  135. The case of thresholdless antiferroelectricity: polarization-stabilized twisted SmC* liquid crystals give V-shaped electro-optic response