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