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  1. Back Cover: Macromol. Biosci. 2/2015

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  2. Nanorods: Discotic Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Gold Nanorods: 2- and 3D Self-Assembly and Macroscopic Alignment as well as Increased Charge Carrier Mobility in Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystal Hosts Affected by Molecular Packing and π-π Interactions (A

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  3. Electro-optic and dielectric properties of a ferroelectric liquid crystal doped with chemically and thermally stable emissive carbon dots

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  4. Aqueous synthesis of polyhedral “brick-like” iron oxide nanoparticles for hyperthermia and T2MRI contrast enhancement

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry B, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  5. A quick and easy synthesis of fluorescent iron oxide nanoparticles featuring a luminescent carbonaceous coating via in situ pyrolysis of organosilane ligands

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  6. Detecting, Visualizing, and Measuring Gold Nanoparticle Chirality Using Helical Pitch Measurements in Nematic Liquid Crystal Phases

    Article • ACS Nano, December 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  7. Discotic Liquid Crystal-Functionalized Gold Nanorods: 2- and 3D Self-Assembly and Macroscopic Alignment as well as Increased Charge Carrier Mobility in Hexagonal Columnar Liquid Crystal Hosts Affected by Molecular Packing and π-π Interactions

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, December 2014, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  8. Biocompatible, Biodegradable and Porous Liquid Crystal Elastomer Scaffolds for Spatial Cell Cultures

    Article • Macromolecular Bioscience, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  9. Biphenyl-based liquid crystals for elevated temperature processing with polymers

    Article • Liquid Crystals, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  10. Magnetic field enhanced convective diffusion of iron oxide nanoparticles in an osmotically disrupted cell culture model of the blood–brain barrier

    Article • International Journal of Nanomedicine, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor donald w miller, Professor Torsten Hegmann

  11. Nanoparticles: Additives and Building Blocks for Liquid Crystal Phases

    Article • February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  12. Synthesis of Liquid Crystal Silane-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles and Their Effects on the Optical and Electro-Optic Properties of a Structurally Related Nematic Liquid Crystal

    Article • ChemPhysChem, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  13. Ink-Jet Printing: Ink-Jet Printed Nanoparticle Alignment Layers: Easy Design and Fabrication of Patterned Alignment Layers for Nematic Liquid Crystals (Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 2/2014)

    Article • Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  14. Nanoparticle Doping in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Distinction between Surface and Bulk Effects by Numerical Simulations

    Article • ChemPhysChem, January 2014, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  15. Ink-Jet Printed Nanoparticle Alignment Layers: Easy Design and Fabrication of Patterned Alignment Layers for Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, September 2013, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  16. One-Pot Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Functional Silane Shells: A Versatile General Precursor for Conjugations and Biomedical Applications

    Article • Langmuir, August 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  17. Directed Drug Convection Using Magnetic Nanoparticles as Therapeutic Carriers

    Article • July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  18. Gold Nanorod Assemblies: Large Area Self-Assembly of Nematic Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized Gold Nanorods (Adv. Funct. Mater. 11/2013)

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  19. Hydrophobic gold nanoparticles via silane conjugation: chemically and thermally robust nanoparticles as dopants for nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  20. A general synthesis of metal (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) oxide and silica nanoparticles based on a low temperature reduction/hydrolysis pathway

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  21. Highly crystalline iron/iron oxide nanosheets via lyotropic liquid crystal templating

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  22. Large Area Self-Assembly of Nematic Liquid-Crystal-Functionalized Gold Nanorods

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  23. New developments in nanoparticle-liquid crystal composites: from magic-sized semiconductor nanoclusters to alignment pattern formation via nanoparticle stenciling

    Article • February 2012, SPIE

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  24. Quantum dots as liquid crystal dopants

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  25. Guest Editorial

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  26. Bent-Core and Nematic Liquid Crystal Functionalized Gold Nanorods

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  27. Nanoparticle-Promoted Thermal Stabilization of Room Temperature Cholesteric Blue Phase Mixtures

    Article • Ferroelectrics, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  28. Nanoparticles: complex and multifaceted additives for liquid crystals

    Article • Liquid Crystals, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  29. Liquid crystal–gold nanoparticle composites

    Article • Liquid Crystals Today, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  30. Magnetic Nanoparticles: A Versatile Method for the Reductive, One-Pot Synthesis of Bare, Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Magnetite Nanoparticles (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2011)

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, April 2011, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  31. A Versatile Method for the Reductive, One-Pot Synthesis of Bare, Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Magnetite Nanoparticles

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  32. Nanocomposites of a nematic liquid crystal doped with magic-sized CdSe quantum dots

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  33. Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  34. Director field of birefringent stripes in liquid crystal/nanoparticle dispersions

    Article • Liquid Crystals, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  35. Alignment and electrooptic effects in nanoparticle-doped nematic liquid crystals

    Article • August 2010, SPIE

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  36. ChemInform Abstract: Binuclear Cyclopalladated Cyclophanes: Towards a New Family of Metallomesogens.

    Article • ChemInform, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  37. 10thEuropean Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC 2009)

    Article • Liquid Crystals Today, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  38. Electroconvection in nematic liquid crystals via nanoparticle doping

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  39. Effects of size, capping agent, and concentration of CdSe and CdTequantum dots doped into a nematic liquid crystal on the optical and electro-optic properties of the final colloidal liquid crystal mixture

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  40. Multiple Alignment Modes for Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Alkylthiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, August 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  41. Miscibility and Alignment Effects of Mixed Monolayer Cyanobiphenyl Liquid-Crystal-Capped Gold Nanoparticles in Nematic Cyanobiphenyl Liquid Crystal Hosts

    Article • ChemPhysChem, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  42. Postsynthesis Racemization and Place Exchange Reactions. Another Step To Unravel the Origin of Chirality for Chiral Ligand-Capped Gold Nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, October 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  43. Effects of functionalized metal and semiconductor nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal phases

    Article • February 2008, SPIE

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  44. Bent-core liquid crystal (LC) decorated gold nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly, and effects in mixtures with bent-core LC hosts

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  45. Impact of nanoscale particles and carbon nanotubes on current and future generations of liquid crystal displays

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  46. Chirality transfer in nematic liquid crystals doped with (S)-naproxen-functionalized gold nanoclusters: an induced circular dichroism study

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2008, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  47. Ferroelectric liquid crystal dopants with a chiral (R,R)‐2,3‐difluorooctyloxy side‐chain: host dependence of the polarization power

    Article • Liquid Crystals, August 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  48. Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Defect Formation and Potential Applications

    Article • Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  49. Towards Recyclable Nanoporous Polymer Membranes for the Synthesis of One-dimensional Nanoscale Gold Colloids

    Article • Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  50. Effects of hydrophilic and hydrophobic gold nanoclusters on the stability and ordering of bolaamphiphilic liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  51. Molecular ordering in a biaxial smectic-A phase studied by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM)

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2007, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  52. Towards Recyclable Nanoporous Polymer Membranes for the Synthesis of One-dimensional Nanoscale Gold Colloids

    Article • Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  53. Formation of periodic stripe patterns in nematic liquid crystals doped with functionalized gold nanoparticles

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  54. Luminescence and photoconductivity in mononuclear ortho-platinated metallomesogens

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  55. Ferroelectric liquid crystals induced by atropisomeric biphenyl dopants: influence of the SmC host mixture composition

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2004, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  56. Molecular design at the calamitic/discotic cross-over point. Mononuclear ortho-metallated mesogens based on the combination of rod-like phenylpyrimidines and -pyridines with bent or half-disc-shaped diketonatesElectronic supplementary information (ESI)...

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, March 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  57. Liquid crystalline macrocycles containing phenylpyrimidine unitsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: the procedures and analytical data for all compounds and a table with selected bond distances and bond angles of the crystal structure...

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, February 2003, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  58. Large electroclinic effect in SmA* liquid crystals induced by an atropisomeric biphenyl dopant

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, September 2002, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  59. Evidence for the Existence of the McMillan Phase in a Binary System of a Metallomesogen and 2,4,7-Trinitrofluorenone

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, March 2001, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  60. Evidence for the Existence of the McMillan Phase in a Binary System of a Metallomesogen and 2,4,7-Trinitrofluorenone

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, March 2001, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  61. Evidence for the Existence of the McMillan Phase in a Binary System of a Metallomesogen and 2,4,7-Trinitrofluorenone

    Article • Angewandte Chemie International Edition, March 2001, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  62. Intermolecular organisation of triphenylene­based discotic mesogens by interdigitation of alkyl chains

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2001, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  63. Combination of molecular rods and half-discs: transition from lamellar to columnar order in multichain mononuclearortho-palladated metallomesogens

    Article • Liquid Crystals, October 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  64. Butterfly-mesogens: para-cyclophane based macrocyclic metallomesogens forming smectic and columnar liquid crystalline phases

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2000, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  65. The Importance of Micro Segregation for Mesophase Formation: Thermotropic Columnar Mesophases of Tetrahedral and other Low-Aspect-Ratio Organic Materials

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, May 1999, Wiley

    Professor Torsten Hegmann

  66. Binuclear cyclopalladated cyclophanes: towards a new family of metallomesogens

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 1998, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Torsten Hegmann