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